Coverage of the All-Star Game’s return to Atlanta fails to mention a voter suppression law that prompted the game’s leaving in 2021.

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Regardless of reason, uncritical food writing shores up existing power structures, and fails to serve the consumers and workers who stand to be hurt by them.

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Inserted between the pages of the Texas Observer’ s Nov./Dec. edition, mailed to readers two months late, was a letter explaining that delivery had been delayed to put together a special, ...

A Jan. 2020 protest against the opening of a new ICE detention facility in Arleta, Los Angeles. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. I understand why journalists rely on the protest paradigm to ...

On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They ...

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Discussing cultural appreciation and appropriation is also about broader questions of who can get a platform to share food — and who profits.

Colleen Grablick and Abigail Higgins, two of the D.C. newsroom’s six co-founders, on building a worker-led newsroom cooperative, filling coverage gaps, and D.C. pride. The logo of The 51st overlaid ...

Courtesy of Brent Stirton/Getty Images. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. In January 2023, 34-year-old Sarah Beth Clendaniel obtained a driver’s license for the first time. Allegedly next on ...

A growing list of journalists have been silenced for criticizing Israel’s military campaign and highlighting its deadly impact on Palestinians.