The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

Several media organizations failed in their coverage of the federal courts’ actions on Trump’s executive order about mail-in voting.

Justin here. You’d be forgiven for thinking we were rerunning fall 2016.  That’s when then-candidate Donald Trump first used a deeply flawed study to claim (falsely) that noncitizens were voting in ex...

Francesca Hong’s defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot reach beyond urban centers.

Red Box Watch tracks red-boxing — public messaging and media-buy guidance posted on federal campaign websites to signal super PACs. 143 human-reviewed findings across 1127 candidates, every claim link...

A campaign of firings and clearance revocations is teaching the intelligence community that silence is the only job security.

His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says a statewide ballot image audit confirmed the results of the June runoff elections and found a 99.9979% accuracy rate, with all identified discrepanci...

With just months until the midterms, President Trump relieved the remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, a move condemned by Democrats and voting rights advocates.

ORDER GRANTING Fulton County's 1 Motion to Quash and DENYING the United States of America's 10 Cross-Motion to enforce grand jury subpoena. The Subpoena No. 2026R00350-1 is QUASHED and Fulton County i...

Senate caucus stands "united" with House Republicans' decision, fearing the redistricting issue would give Democrats an effective issue to campaign on during the midterms.

AJC: As we reported last week, some House Republicans are privately resisting the idea of redrawing the 2028 political boundaries during the special session that begins Wednesday. Even if the map figh...

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