Media + Culture
January 2, 2019 Media Roundup: A Woman’s Rights, a Distorted Drug Ranking and Qatar “Sin Tax”
Here’s what we’re talking about today: A Woman’s Rights [New York Times] “If ...
Public Health Experts Call for Retraction of Brookings Institution Opioid “Research Roundup”
[This article was updated December 12 to reflect a response from the author of ...
Is Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” Disrespectful to Mac Miller?
Watching the video for Ariana Grande’s record-breaking song “Thank U, Next”—which premiered on Youtube ...
As Nicholas Kristof Recruits Students for His Global Poverty Tour, a New Book Exposes His “Racist and Imperialist Logic”
New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof has issued an invitation to university students ...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explained Why Marijuana Should Be Legal on Instagram—But the Live Feed Also Had Wider Significance
New York Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, captivated thousands ...
“Zombies” and Rotting Flesh: The Media Just Loves Halloween-y Depictions of People Who Use Drugs
Zombies are apparently not just for Halloween—they pervade media descriptions of people who use ...
Misinformation About So-Called “Terrorist Drug” Dispelled in New Report
If you’re in the US, you may not have heard of captagon—an understudied synthetic ...
Why Everything About the Trump Administration’s New Opioid Video Campaign Is Wrong
A new campaign—from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the ...
Bopping Toward the Apocalypse: Where Drugs, History and Culture Collide
Obsessions with heroin and writing have dominated large, if not necessarily concurrent, parts of ...
The Language of Addiction: New York Times Insists on Perpetuating Stigma
The debate over journalists’ language on drug use was reignited by a recent email ...
