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Journalism has been fodder for politicians’ contempt for generations. A huge percentage of the public doesn’t trust the news media either. That mistrust isn’t a bad thing in a democracy.
Could Google’s undisputed dominance as a search engine come under threat from AI?
America’s public sphere is broken because propaganda has replaced political communication. How did we all become propagandists?
A young reader asks: How are languages formed?
There’s no going back to normal after COVID-19, partly because our pre-pandemic world was anything but normal.
Americans can survive a second Trump term if they resurrect a language of critique and possibility that draws from history and shields the U.S. from authoritarianism.
Research on how children learn show we develop language skills by recycling other parts of our minds.
Public officials are now in the spotlight: Does the public view them as professionals, bound by duty, or as elites who invoke ideals while pursuing their own agendas?
Some on the left view sport as a distraction. But life is a struggle. And there shouldn’t be anything wrong with finding something to celebrate.
The story of the Waco siege is a story of how the media and the government can work in concert to shape a narrative and dehumanize victims.
LSD is far safer than alcohol or tobacco, so why don’t drug laws reflect it?
New research gives weight to Noam Chomsky’s idea of a universal language ability.
A revolution in the tools and techniques developmental psychologists use to investigate kids’ knowledge and capabilities is rewriting what we know about how and when children understand their world.
When we ditched high-school Latin we lost a great intellectual training. Here’s how to get it back without resorting to a dead language.
Consensual same-sex conduct is a crime in 38 African countries. The media in those countries are very much in cahoots with their rulers. But they’re getting their comeuppance from Twitter.
The concept of the greater good has made a comeback in Europe in an era of budget austerity, but in Australia too few of us are alive to its meaning – and to its vulnerability.
There’s nothing like raising an infant to help galvanise one of the greatest debates in modern linguistics.
Noam Chomsky’s political detractors typically resort to misrepresentation and vilification but one might expect a higher standard from academic colleagues, especially in his own discipline of linguistics…
In his recent speech accepting the Sydney Peace Prize, Chomsky returned to a recurrent theme from his work in political science: that the violence perpetrated by the West is not represented in our media…
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