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For weeks, Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson and his allies have been running a set of attack ads against Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes about crime. One ad focuses on violent crime rising across the state and portrays Barnes as someone who wants to shrink the number of police officers and release criminals from jail. Another ad accuses Barnes of refusing to pay property and income taxes. A third ad, released Monday, accuses Barnes of mocking Representative Steve Scalise for getting shot by a gunman a few years ago. Читать дальше...

If you’ve been following the events in Iran since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on September 16 after being detained by the “morality police” for not wearing her hijab in accordance with government standards, you may have—or should have—happened across Negar Mortazavi, the Iranian American journalist and commentator whose Twitter feed has been a must-read source for links to the latest information on events in Iran. Mortazavi, who lives in the United States but was born and raised in Tehran shortly after the revolution... Читать дальше...

For anyone living in a media market featuring contested political races—especially places such as Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Atlanta—these are the jackhammer months. Never in an off-year election have so many campaign spots been aired. TV spending will more than double from 2018 levels, according to estimates by the analytical firm AdImpact. The Wesleyan Media Project, which studies campaign commercials, calculated that more than two million ads had aired on broadcast television by early August—long before campaigns began their fall offensive. Читать дальше...

The updated vaccines released in September were a marvel of science: the first time the shots to prevent Covid actually matched the variant circulating in our population. The first round of vaccines were based on the original strain identified in Wuhan, China, but by the time they rolled out, variants like alpha and delta dominated, which meant the vaccines were already out of date. Now the boosters updated to protect against BA.5, the predominant variant in the U.S., have the chance to be tremendously effective... Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will take up two cases on Section 230, the bedrock federal law that shields internet companies from most content-related lawsuits. While Section 230 has become a hot topic in Congress and the courts in recent years, the justices have not yet ruled on its scope. Their decision could have sweeping ramifications for the nature of the internet itself—and for the companies, large and small, that have relied on the provision to escape legal liability for user content for the last quarter-century. Читать дальше...