The militarization of cyberspace has been under way for more than a decade, but only in the last few years have the telltale signs appeared suggesting that the United States is erecting a new digital wing of its permanent national-security state. Three years ago, for example, came the birth of the 24th Air Force, at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. The 24th claims to be “the newest numbered air force,” as well as “the first-ever unit designated for the sole purpose of cyberspace operations.” According to its fact sheet,

In The Rise of Political Fact Checking, a report published by the New America Foundation in February, Dobbs dates the start of the fact-checking movement to Ronald Reagan's presidency, when Reagan claimed trees caused four times more pollution than ...

Our work at the Media Policy Initiative has been in support of both broadcaster transparency and advancing the idea that journalism schools can be news producers, so we couldn’t have been happier when the two ideas intersected in a piece produced by Kent State University undergraduate and

And today, the New America Foundation, which formulates media policy reforms, will host a panel discussion on whether the current system of public interest obligations for broadcasters is broken considering the massive lobbying blitz broadcasters ...