List of Media articles
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Angola’s Star Reporter Won’t Stay Down
Angola's corrupt leaders keep trying to silence Rafael Marques. So far, without success.
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is AQIM Parroting the Islamic State in Its Latest Hostage Video?
The new video features a Swedish and a South African hostage.
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Beyond Propaganda
How authoritarian regimes are learning to engineer human souls in the age of Facebook.
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Islamic State Beheads a Cartoon Obama, Calls Him a ‘Mule of the Jews’
Two Islamic State cartoons meant to troll the United States are reminiscent of bad South Park episodes.
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Wife of Israeli Interior Minister Lands in Hot Water Over Racist Obama Tweet
When your husband serves as Israel’s interior minister and is charged with overseeing the country’s strategic dialogue with its most important ally, the United States, this is what qualifies as an ill-advised tweet.
-
Haitians queue up to legalize their status at the Interior Ministry in Santo Domingo, on June 17, 2015. Tens of thousands of people are facing deportations as a deadline for foreigners, most of them being Haitians, to legalize their status as undocumented alien is due to expire midnight. AFP PHOTO / ERIKA SANTELICES (Photo credit should read ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Burma Backslides on Freedom of the Press
As far as Burma’s leaders are concerned, the media is still enemy number one.
-
Chinese people use computers at an internet bar in Beijing on September 30, 2009. Press rights group Reporters Without Borders said on September 29 that a "paranoid" China had blocked tens of thousands of websites ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic. AFP PHOTO/LIU Jin (Photo credit should read LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images) How to Spot a State-Funded Chinese Internet Troll
Personal attacks, appeals to communal loyalty, and pleas for patience are some telltale signs.
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Israel Attacks Foreign Media as Biased in Video Mocking Western Journalists
The video depicts a towheaded correspondent turning a blind eye to violence and abuse in Gaza.
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘We Just Publish What We Believe to Be the Position of the British Government’
That's how Tom Harper, the home affairs correspondent for the Sunday Times, describes his latest story about the fallout of the Snowden revelations.
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sorry, Fareed: Saudi Arabia Can Build a Bomb Any Damn Time It Wants To
Why do we think it’s so hard for a non-European country to acquire a 70-year-old technology?
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Online Refuge for Venezuela’s Intellectuals
A mild-mannered economist has become Venezuela's unlikely media sensation — and provided a badly-needed resource for the country's intellectuals.
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Post-Soviet Azerbaijan, PR Does You
The European Games open today in Azerbaijan, whose authoritarian leader has conceived of the event to boost the country's international profile.
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 American Teenage Terrorist-Wannabe Pleads Guilty to Aiding the Islamic State
An American teenager has been charged with aiding the Islamic State.
-
fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘What U.S. Foreign Policy Really Needs Is…’
The 11 worst Washington insider policy clichés.
