Media

The country’s former occupier is using Kremlin-backed media to fuel anger toward the United States.

The increasingly narrow backgrounds of reporters distort coverage at home and abroad.

Ankara shut an institution founded by religious conservatives and attacks tech companies in order to stop young Turks from accessing a free academic and media environment.

As press freedom declines globally, the United States must reckon with its own diminishment.

Dubious and unfounded claims on the internet intended for domestic consumption are reaching far beyond their target audiences, allowing governments to spread disinformation cheaply and easily.

The insatiable appetite for disaster information is psychologically understandable—and politically dangerous.

Tit-for-tat media expulsions only end up benefiting Beijing.

Cartography and conflict in the post-Cold War world.

The fight on Chinese disinformation has become dangerously partisan.

Blame the British press and Buckingham Palace staff for the royal Brexit.

Coverage of Suleimani’s killing shows locals are still silenced.

A look at the stories the major media overreported—or paid too little attention to—in the past year.

Fragments of the wall have become museum pieces. But with the rise of extremist parties in Germany, the debate over the barrier’s legacy is anything but history.

A wave of new Polish games reexamines Soviet repression.

How public television became an outlet for the Law and Justice party—and what it means for democracy.

Russia has started using the West’s own reporting against it. Here’s how to respond.

The city’s old public art showed a United States to be feared. The new ones depict a country that is weaker, more laughable, and riddled with its own problems.

Without regulations that push search engines and social media companies to prioritize reliable and truthful sources of information, propaganda and censored content will dominate digital platforms.

Academics need to get better at reaching non-experts. Narrative media offer one possibility.