commentary Ratings and journalistic credibility are suffering amid reports of editorial meddling Published October 20, 2026 6:30AM (EDT) Bari Weiss, CBS News editor-in-chief, could soon be facing stiff competition from her former “60 Minutes” employees (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) When I watched veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl report from theContinue Reading
Paramount Skydance has completed its takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, bringing CNN and CBS News under the same corporate ownership, in a deal that has raised concerns about editorial independence and freedom of speech. The acquisition, worth about $110bn including debt, combines two of Hollywood’s biggest studios after months ofContinue Reading
A man wears a red “Gulf of America” hat as Donald Trump arrives in Houston’s Ellington Airport, on Aug. 27, 2026, ahead of a Republican National Committee fundraiser. Photo: Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto via Getty Images Seth Stern is the director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation. Clayton Weimers is theContinue Reading
In an editorial in Science, U.S.-based energy policy experts Paasha Mahdavi and Michael Ross argue that governments creating consumer fossil fuel subsidies in response to rising energy prices is the “worst energy policy in the world.” Mahdavi, an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the U.S.,Continue Reading
Humans are social animals, and so in our cultural imagination, we tend to bracket solitude with loneliness. Viewed from a different perspective, though, it can be quite beautiful. And that’s a theme that comes out clearly in the work of Wu Xinlin. At the same time, the Chinese illustrator, who’sContinue Reading
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“You can look at anything around you and wonder how you could interpret this in design or motion,” says Rob Farmer. A walk after dinner, a flock of gulls, the static hiss of a TV screen – all of it gets filed away as potential creative material. “I often likeContinue Reading
A decade ago, the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) viewed Brexit as a potential gamechanger in the struggle to resist future pressure for a united Ireland. As the author and journalist Fintan O’Toole wrote in an essay published last year, the DUP hoped that the 2016 referendum would deliver “a double exit.Continue Reading
In Brief: Terence Ronson warns that AI is reshaping hotel distribution by reducing discovery to a shortlist drawn largely from OTA and editorial content. He argues that independent hotels risk becoming invisible unless they maintain accurate, consistent and machine-readable property data across the sources AI trusts. The AI shortlist isContinue Reading
Imperialism does not require a flag to be planted or a governor dispatched. It can be a powerful nation deciding who governs a smaller, weaker country, and on what terms and for whose benefit its resources will be developed. Donald Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, putting his deputy –Continue Reading
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