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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Donna Brazile's Tell-All Is Troubling For the Wrong Reasons
Instead of contributing to our understanding of what happened in 2016, Hacks muddies the waters.
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Julie Jacobson / AP The Lust in the Heart of Rolling Stone
The editor Jann Wenner has been accused of trading work for sex—as a new book describes his “jovial sexual harassment” and other forms of self-gratification.
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Frances Benjamin Johnston / Library of Congress / … Reflections of an Affirmative-Action Baby
White men from fancy schools advanced quickly at the New Republic. Asking how much of their success was due to race, gender, and class would have meant asking the same of myself.
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Conde Nast Can a New Vogue Editor Make Britain Great Again?
Edward Enninful, freshly installed at the U.K. magazine, has a dynamic and inspiring vision of an embattled nation.
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Universal The Pitfalls of Taylor Swift's Anti-PR Campaign
A cease-and-desist letter to a blogger earned rebuke from the ACLU and attention to the star’s white-supremacist following.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Inevitability of NPR's Meltdown
A timeline of a firing—and a reminder of the stubbornness of the status quo
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Michael Klippfeld / Getty Images Is This the Upside Down?
The allegations of sexual predation, across industries and decades. The offenses that have hidden in plain sight. Today’s monsters don’t breathe fire or trample buildings; they walk among us.
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AP Photo Why 'A Father-Son Talking-To' Is So Troubling
Before NPR’s Michael Oreskes resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct, his former colleagues offered insight into the male-driven version of the whisper network.
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Brooks Kraft / Corbis / Getty / The … Leon Wieseltier: A Reckoning
Women who once worked at the New Republic reflect on their experiences with the legendary literary editor, who is now facing allegations of workplace “misconduct.”
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Alexander Koerner / Getty Will Harvey Weinstein Finally Kill the Old Boys' Network?
How many more days are left for the “dinosaurs” of media and entertainment to roam the Earth?
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Will America Accept Refugees From Trump's White House?
In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, Sean Spicer demonstrated why those fleeing the administration may find it difficult to start fresh.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters More Than 100 Exceptional Works of Journalism
This fantastic nonfiction from 2016 is still worth discovering and pondering today.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Projection President
Months into his tenure, Trump still responds to controversies by lobbing the same charges at his opponents.
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Nathan Congleton / MSNBC Mika Brzezinski and Donald Trump's Penchant for Blood Feuds
American pop culture has worked to normalize women’s bleeding. The American president has missed that memo.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Fall of a Foreign-Affairs Reporter
The Wall Street Journal has fired Jay Solomon for becoming involved with an arms dealer, but reporters have often been unable to resist getting their hands dirty with the topics they cover.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Why So Much Is ‘Bonkers’ Right Now
Is something in the news abnormal? Unprecedented? Totally wacky? Thanks to British English, there’s a perfect word for that.
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Fred Prouser / Reuters Former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Is Dead
The news was confirmed by his wife.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Hitting Bill O’Reilly Where It Hurts
Can activists use big business to stop a conservative media juggernaut?
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Nomad Soul / Igor Lateci / Shutterstock / … Selling What They Preach
From Amazon to Apple, from Starbucks to upscale hotel chains, brands are making claims not just about what people should buy, but about what people should be.
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Conaco / TBS What Conan O'Brien Means to Late-Night's Future
The long-tenured host might be moving to a weekly, or all-digital, format in the coming years—another major shift for an ever-evolving genre.
