Jan 29, 2020
Over
the last 20 years, the topics of substance use and treatment have
become the stuff of televised entertainment: heart-wrenching
stories of desperation and redemption, of suffering and survival.
Shows like A&E’s Intervention and VH1’s Celebrity Rehab with Dr.
Drew, which depict people
with substance use...
Jan 22, 2020
From its inception as agriculture trade paper in 1843 to the present day, The Economist has provided a gateway into the mind of the banking class. Something of an anomaly in the publishing industry, The Economist is not quite a magazine, not quite a newspaper; aspirational in its branding but bleakly limited...
Jan 15, 2020
Everywhere we turn, local media — TV, digital, radio — is constantly telling us about the scourge of crime lurking around every corner. This, of course, is not new. It’s been the basis of the local news business model since the 1970s.
But what is new is the rise of surveillance and snitch apps like Amazon’s Ring...