Bob Garfield

Just days away from FOIA's 50th anniversary, President Obama signed into law a bill that could make the federal government the most transparent it has ever been.

Brexit, Britain's impending vote on whether to leave the European Union, is ostensibly about economics. But what's it really about?

For the majority of American history, the Second Amendment did not protect an individual's right to bear arms. 

America was designed to keep dangerous demagogues from rising to the highest office. This year, that system may be put to the test.

CNN's Jake Tapper has distinguished himself by asking tough, pointed questions of Donald Trump. But if he doesn't get straight answers, are those questions enough?

For months, reporters have struggled to effectively cover Donald Trump. Will a return to journalistic principles yield a change?

A critical look at the AP's decision to name Hillary Clinton as the presumptive democratic nominee before Tuesday's primaries.

How did Hillary Clinton "clinch" the nomination on a day when no one voted? The Associated Press explains how and why they broke the story when they did.

Author Aleksandar Hemon refused to sign an open letter condemning Trump. He explains why this moment is bigger than one man and what the role of literature should be.

Nearly 14 years after they were classified, 28 mysterious pages from a congressional report may reveal Saudi Arabian involvement in 9/11.

Official uncertainty around the Zika virus has opened the floodgates for some crazy conspiracy theories. Can they be countered? 

The world's tangled policy on captives means some live to tell the tale, and others don't. 

What a prisoner of ISIS can teach us about the challenges confronting intrepid chroniclers of war.

With the help of new "de-communization" laws, the head of Ukraine's Institute of National Memory is doing everything he can to erase certain chapters in Ukraine's past.

The origins of the ubiquitous, insufferable, all-purpose "Keep Calm and Carry On" slogan. 

The US and Japan have, understandably, very different narratives about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 

You might remember him as "Carlos Danger," but a new documentary sets out to show that Anthony Weiner is more than a punchline. 

"Who will Trump's VP pick be? Where does he stand on tax policy? Is he acting more presidential?" Bob says: "Who cares?!" The press must stay on the real story: his dangerous statements.

Conservatives were quick to decry Facebook's "liberal bias" -- but others say the problem is concentration, not conviction. Robert McChesney on the dangers of media consolidation.

Why we should be more worried about Facebook's algorithms than its human "curators" delivering us our news.