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Do You Trust Your Democratic Representatives?
Despite the divisiveness riddling contemporary American politics, most political observers have come to agree on one point: that democracy in the United States stands on shaky ground. Dissatisfaction...
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Is There a Cure for Information Disorder?
It’s difficult to separate the vitality of democracy from the vibrancy of the information that fuels it. In their landmark work on political knowledge in America, the scholars Michael X. Delli Carpini...
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What Makes Us Vote the Way We Do?
It might seem to be common sense that the central role of media in a democracy is, as two keen observers of journalism once suggested, to provide citizens “with the information they need to be free and...
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How Media Stifles Deliberative Democracy
If we are sorted into political communities, plugged into disparate and often contradicting media outlets, then a core question becomes: can we talk to each other? That is, can we discuss, debate, and...
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The Media’s Bottom-Line Problem
In its most dystopian moment, the award-winning HBO drama Succession imagined the ownership of a major media corporation—a fictional rendering of Fox News—using the power of their live election night...
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Public Media and the Infrastructure of Democracy
With the passage of the 2021 federal infrastructure act, billions of dollars have begun flowing to rebuild the nation’s transportation, energy, and water systems. Notably, the act also commits...
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