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March 13, 2024 | Time

Multilingualism Is an American Tradition. So Is Backlash to It

During a recent campaign-style speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), former President Donald Trump added a new twist to his usual anti-immigrant discourse by suggesting that immigrants coming to the United States are speaking “languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of.

March 8, 2024 | Time

It Wasn’t This Year’s Most Acclaimed Historical Film—But Napoleon Has Something to Teach Viewers

As awards season heats up in Hollywood, one highly anticipated blockbuster film of 2023 will face the disappointing reality of being less decorated than its eponymous 18th century-born Corsican military hero. With four wins (including two satirical “Yoga” awards) and 39 nominations, to Oppenheimer’s more than 300 wins out of nearly 400 various nominations, Ridley Scott’s Napoleon has apparently faced its Waterloo.

November 21, 2023 | The Conversation

Shows like ‘Scandal’ and ‘Madam Secretary’ inspire women to become involved in politics in real life

Hillary Clinton famously did not win the 2016 election and become the first female U.S. president. Yet Clinton’s presidential campaign still resonated with many women who have said it made them more likely to get involved in politics.

September 27, 2023 | Time

Long Before the GOP Debate, Cable News Sold Itself as a Boon to Democracy. It Was Always About Power

On Wednesday, the second GOP presidential debate will take place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute and will be televised on Fox Business Network (FBN), a cable channel with both conservative political and business credentials. FBN is newer and less controversial than the more prominent, politically charged Fox News Channel, but its turn in the spotlight makes clear a fundamental truth about the rise of cable news and its historic relationship to cable television’s bottom

August 23, 2023 | Los Angeles Review of Books

Propaganda, Outrage, and Entertainment

AS THE 2024 presidential race kicks off, changes in the media landscape are reshaping campaigns at a dizzying pace as candidates search for the right social media platforms to connect directly to voters and raise money. And yet, the first Republican primary debate signals the true starting line of the campaign, and it’s significant where the showdown is airing: on Fox News, a cable channel, not on a new social media platform.

August 13, 2023 | The Atlantic

The Problem With Fox News Goes Way, Way Back

The cable-news industry that Americans know today is a cautionary tale in what happens when democracy collides with consumerism. For years, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News raked in profits while amplifying partisan rancor in varying ways. Starting in 2015, CNN pumped its ratings by playing up Donald Trump, whose presidency then buoyed all three cable-news giants. But now CNN is in turmoil after a recent change of ownership and the departure of its president, Chris Licht, after 15 months. After the 2020

May 17, 2023 | The Washington Post

Like today, 18th-century laws about pregnancy aimed to control women

Questions of fetal life were unsettled under English common law — and today’s rulings go far beyond consensus of the time

May 15, 2023 | The Washington Post

Conversion therapy is harmful and ineffective. So why is it still here?

The politics that have kept a dubious ‘treatment’ alive

May 5, 2023 | The Washington Post

Cinco de Mayo is not a Mexican holiday. It’s an American one.

The holiday commemorates a Latino tradition in the United States and Mexico of fighting against racism and colonialism

March 21, 2023 | The Washington Post

Displaced students deserve access to education — all of them

A century-old refugee education infrastructure may help Ukrainians — but the system has historically excluded non-White and non-Western refugees.