Disinformation Is Creating a Post-Truth World Where Democracy Is in Peril
A review of Boston University Professor Lee McIntyre’s “On Disinformation: How To Fight For Truth And Protect Democracy.”
A review of Boston University Professor Lee McIntyre’s “On Disinformation: How To Fight For Truth And Protect Democracy.”
We can start by urging our state lawmakers to support Senator Katie Muth’s recently proposed legislation to classify wastewater produced by fracking as hazardous.
This past – complete with settlers’ brutal violence that often targeted Native American women and children and was often encouraged through scalp bounties – is often ignored in the U.S.
If the last two presidential elections are any indication, we can expect Roger Stone and his cabal of miscreants to flood the information space with phony, distracting, and inflammatory narratives about the 2024 election.
In Front Royal, Virginia, 53 local radical traditionalist Catholics filled out some 600 reconsideration requests to remove 139 LGBTQ+ books from the public library. And that was just the beginning.
The billion-dollar company profits off pushing workers like me to our physical limits — only to ignore us when we’re hurt on the job.
Books can provide readers with places of connection, build empathy, and overcome division. Banning books accomplished the opposite.
History can teach us lessons to better understand today’s rising antisemitism and white supremacist ideology in the United States.
The co-founder of the PA BetterPath Coalition discusses the climate crisis, Gov. Shapiro’s response (or lack thereof), and plans going forward.
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.