Released for Syndication:
06/12/2025
According to the Pew Research Center, more than half of Americans used social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and X as news sources in 2024 despite the reported proliferation of misinformation and voter manipulation on these online sites.
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Released for Syndication:
05/09/2025
The Earth is “on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster,” according to “The 2024 State of the Climate Report.” Sounding the alarm on the “emergency” we find ourselves in, the report warns that the situation can no longer be ignored as “the very...
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05/09/2025
Before 1996, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) restricted U.S. corporations from owning more than 40 radio stations. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 eliminated these curbs, enabling single corporate entities to own unlimited stations.
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Released for Syndication:
05/02/2025
A 2020 study by the Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences researcher Tina Kubrak is one of many reports showing that movies can powerfully influence attitudes on factors like sexual orientation, transgenderism, gender roles, ethnicity, and mental illness.
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Released for Syndication:
04/24/2025
Despite Donald Trump’s disavowal of Project 2025, his administration began enforcing that initiative’s agenda immediately after his second inauguration. This includes efforts to erase history through education cuts, classroom and book censorship, website scrubbing, and the silencing of media outlets and...
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04/21/2025
In 1989, 22.8 percent of America’s total net worth belonged to the top 1 percent of the nation’s wealth holders. By 2024, that share had risen to 30.8 percent, according to the online publisher Visual Capitalist.
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Released for Syndication:
04/03/2025
An analysis of data from 2017 and 2022 by the Pew Charitable Trusts points to a direct connection between high housing costs and homelessness rates in the United States. Unsurprisingly, a Santa Cruz County Civil Grand Jury 2024 report stated that the city,...
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03/28/2025
The arrival of COVID-19 in the United States kicked off an ongoing period of job insecurity within the media industry. In April 2020, the New York Times reported that about 37,000 news company employees had been laid off, furloughed, or had their salaries reduced...
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03/11/2025
In 1989, one-third of the inhabitants of Porto Alegre, Brazil, lived in impoverished regions on the fringes of the city, cut off from sanitation, clean water, medical facilities, and other essential resources.
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Released for Syndication:
03/05/2025
The beginning of Trump’s second presidency in January 2025 marked an upsurge in the suppression of online information. On February 2, the New York Times reported that more than 8,000 webpages had been erased from the sites of U.S. government agencies like the Department...