Who do you trust? By Michael Howard.

The New York Times is cheering on the Orwellian future for Western “democracy” in which algorithms quickly hunt down and eliminate information that the Times and other mainstream outlets don’t like, reports Robert Parry.

An existential question facing humankind is whom can be trusted to describe the world and its conflicts, especially since mainstream experts have surrendered to careerism, writes Robert Parry.

Times’ news staff trashes column on Twitter, while top scientist says paper is “willingly abetting climate change denialism.” By Joe Romm.

The Daily Show correspondent took no prisoners when he took the stage; read the full text of his speech here. By Hillary Busis.

Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius wrote what read like a press release for the Saudi regime. By Adam Johnson.

A Q&A with Bret Stephens, formerly of the Wall Street Journal. By Jeff Stein.

Mike Pompeo has a dangerous worldview. By Julian Assange.

Wondering how reporters missed the Trump wave? We crunched the data on where they work and how fast it’s changing. The results should worry the country. By Jack Shafer and Tucker Doherty.

It’s about the living wage in America. By Adrianne Jeffries.

Nina Illingworth takes a quick check in with the mainstream US media and discovers that it’s all war all the time in an ominous sign for the future.

Jeremy Corbyn may be hiding under your bed this very minute. By Ian Welsh.

Art Cullen owns the 3,000-circulation Storm Lake Times with his brother John. His wife and son also work at the paper.

We don’t need to traffic in conspiracy theories to realize how outrageous Trump is. By Masha Gessen.

Louise Mensch is delusional, which is why she gets to write for the New York Times… By Nathan J. Robinson and Alex Nichols.

Jimmy Breslin was the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, the best columnist in New York City. By Jason Silverstein, Larry McShane.

How did we get from ‘Village Voice’ reporters digging up everything there is to know about a flashy New York real estate salesman to not knowing anything about the President of the United States and his ties to Russia? By Lee Smith.

Why Vox is an Anti-Intellectual Publication and How it Can Do Better. By Benjamin Studebaker.

Both the White House and Fox News helped to spread these false claims, and still have not retracted them. By Glenn Greenwald, Murtaza Hussain.

Gaslighting is a manipulation tactic used to gain power. And it works too well. By Stephanie Sarkis Ph.D.