The much-trumpeted conspirationalism
Not only was President Trump trying to coerce a foreign leader to find dirt on a political opponent, he also promotes a longstanding conspiracy theory originating in right-wing circles. As the rough transcript of Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
The biggest political turmoil since 2016
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi replied with two words when she was asked what changed her position about the impeachment of Donald Trump. “The facts,” she said, during a live interview on stage at the Texas Tribune Festival last week. We are in the middle of the biggest...
2019. “The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”
It was 8:30am on a hot Saturday morning in the Embassy Suites lobby in Austin, Texas, and Stuart Maue had already put together a sophisticated automatic rifle made of over 15 balloons. He started light, a couple of minutes before, with two balloon-puppies, and quickly...
How to steal an election
The days before elections in Bulgaria are always extremely tense. It is a well-known fact in my country that when there are elections, there are numerous attempts to manipulate the vote. Some of them are successful. The most popular method used by many Bulgarian...
Mayor Pete and gay rights in America
When a little-known politician named Barack Obama first announced he was running for president I didn’t think he stood a chance. “Sadly, Americans will never vote for a black president,” I told my friends. I hadn’t spent any real time in the United States back then...
The debate on reparations and the painful history of slavery
The 1619 Project, a special issue of the The New York Times Magazine, has been the most talked-about journalistic venture I’ve encountered during my stay in the United States. Its goal is to reframe American history and to place the consequences of slavery at the...
Was Trump’s Call to Ukraine President “Just a wonderful conversation”?, Media Analysis
The media is awash with the Trump-Ukraine phone call scandal. Everyone is analyzing it their own way. Read transcript here Thanks Mr. President for this “wonderful conversation” with your Ukrainian counterpart. “Perfect phone call with the president...“Rapists,” “aliens,” “parasites”? No: Workers
At the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump shot his nationalist message once again: “The future does not belong to globalists,” he said. Hours before the Democrats announced the beginning of the impeachment inquiry process, the president used the...
For all the talk about the death of facts, old school journalism is still as powerful as ever
“She felt that the story wasn’t fully told.” That’s how Rick Hirsch, managing editor of the Miami Herald described why the newspaper’s journalist, Julie K. Brown started to work on a story that became one of the most consequential in recent years. It’s about...
We are happy to announce the selection of the 2019 World Press Institute (WPI) fellows! Read more about the 2019 WPI Fellows and view their photos here: https://t.co/PEepuQI8Lu
Happy Holidays from WPI! If you are a foreign journalist looking to immerse yourself in the governance, politics, business, media, journalistic ethics and culture of the US, we are now accepting applications for our 2019 fellowship program: https://t.co/UuT18UAzyw.