All 118 articles by Susan J. Douglas
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GOP: Masters of Media
As the GOP slashes the social safety net, the party seizes on 'scandals' to distract the public.
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How Breaking News Broke in Boston
The media continues to come up short, precisely when it matters most.
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The Digital Education Divide
Massive Open Online Courses threaten to aggravate the problems they were designed to solve.
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Bingeing on Food Porn
How foodie magazines aid and abet Big Food.
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NRA: No Research Allowed
Two reasons the NRA is like Big Tobacco.
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A Farewell to Arms
The framers' intent for "a well-regulated militia" may have meant...well, regulation.
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Hangovers, Electoral and Otherwise
So what are we to make of this election?
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Big Money Can’t Buy You Memes
Can a grainy, amateur video, zooming through social media, trump slickly produced TV ads?
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In Defense of the Baby Boomers
Twentysomethings are indeed getting screwed, but not by an entire, somehow monolithic generation of selfish, greedy, resource-guzzling hogs.
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The War on Old Folks
I'm sitting here feeling my bile rise as I eye the cover of the publication I most love...
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Perverts on the Bump Patrol
From Capitol Hill to celebrity mags, why is everyone obsessed with uteruses?
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Hypothetical Matchups: A Gaffe-ing Matter
Let's not forget GOP primary season verbal missteps as the general election begins.
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Newt Gingrich’s Vintage Female Problem
He doesn't seem to like older women. They ought to take revenge at the ballot box.
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It’s the Stupid Republicans, Stupid
Progressives shouldn't be shy about mobilizing voters around singe-issue passions.
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Class Consciousness Is Back
Once you notice inequality, you can't escape the realities of class in America.
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Occupy the Press
Despite the media's atrocious coverage, the Occupy protests have clearly changed the nation's conversation.
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If Only Sexism Could Be Cancelled
New shows try to capitalize on Mad Men's popularity—and avoid what prompted the women's movement.
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The Other Media Crisis: Irrelevance
Writing about government ineptitude or corporate corruption can feel like shaking your fist at the cosmos.
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In Defense of U.K. Journalists
I write from London, where throughout July those of us who deplore Rupert Murdoch's Death Star empire were...
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Bachmann-Media Overdrive
Did you enjoy the first big televised debate among the Republican presidential candidates? I skipped it, figuring I...
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The Bully’s Pulpit
It is, alas, the season for commencement addresses, when graduates are offered advice about how to succeed and...
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Condemn Censorship
Despite NPR's timidity and capitulation to the Right, we need to support public radio more than ever.
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Let Us Now Praise Gov. Scott Walker
Who is the face of America? Is it mean-spirited and clueless Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, with no...
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America’s ‘Can’t Do’ Spirit
Between plunges into despair and peaks of possibility, January has been a roller coaster ride. Let's stand back...
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AARP’s Senior Moment
Because I am approaching Geezerhood and seek to support organizations that I believe, rightly or wrongly, might fight...
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WikiLeaks: The TMZ of Global Politics
It is the morning after the third WikiLeaks bomb. In addition to the embarrassing content of the embassy...
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All Is Not (Yet) Lost
It's the morning after Election Day, the Armageddon-for-Obama the media have been predicting since about five months after...
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Democrats and the Anger Gap
Every election season seems to bring forth a catch phrase characterizing the electorate that is, invariably, a mischaracterization...
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Speaking Tax Truth to Midterm Power
Because I have a negative, visceral reaction to any phrase or policy that contains the word "Bush," I...
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The Teachers Are All Right
My brother is a high school teacher. He is not famous, and certainly not rich. After he leaves...
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The End of Men, or the End of Reason?
Want to sell a lot of magazines and generate a lot of buzz? Take a story about society's...
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This Summer’s Crop of Media Myths
As we slog through what promises to be an awful summer--if BP, Israel and Wall Street lobbyists have...
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Can We Escape Our History?
Approaching the University of Michigan's football stadium for this year's graduation ceremony, I had to work my way...
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The Unanswered Question
Helen Thomas' pointed, and deceptively courageous question, "Why do they want to do us harm?" obviously begs the...
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Girls Gone Anti-Feminist
Is ’70s feminism an impediment to female happiness and fulfillment?
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How to Beat the One-Term Blues
Obama is dead meat. A one-term president. The Republicans will roar back triumphantly to take over Congress in...
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Who is the Real Terrorism Powder Puff?
No sooner could you say "oy, longer lines at airport security," than the right-wing blare machine was accusing...
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The Worst Obsession in the World
Glenn Beck is the anti-Christ. Sarah Palin is an idiot; yet she is also more dangerous than Hitler,...
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Pitbullies of the Right
By the time you read this, election day will be over and pundits will have told us all...
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Women Reach a Breaking Point
How tired are you of seeing a tiny minority of wingnut Americans--"birthers," "teabaggers," Obama-haters--get so much coverage...
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Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
Progressives have been wrong--overly idealistic--about the power of communication. Many of us cling to the belief that if...
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News Media ‘Acting Stupidly
The most exasperating, if utterly predictable, lesson from the Henry Louis Gates Jr. contretemps was not about race....
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Jon & Kate Plus Mindless Drivel
Standing in the supermarket checkout line, I'm accosted by a slew of headlines: Has Jon been cheating on...
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Antidote to Drug War Madness
So I was making dinner, and on NPR I hear, to my amazement, a report by Robert Siegel...
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Let’s Expose the Poster Boys of Greed
Boy, have I learned my lesson, which I pass onto you. Do not, under any circumstances, call out...
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Wanted: A Perp Walk For Plutocrats
My husband and I were engaged in our usual dinner table rant about politics and the economy. Having...
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Death by Chutzpah
You know what I'm tired of? Chutzpah. Defined as "utter nerve; effrontery," chutzpah can be admirable, especially when...
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The Dragon We Must Slay
Obama as Lincoln. Obama as FDR. The instantly classic image of Obama, sticking his jaw defiantly into the...
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Invisible Women
So here's the great contradiction of the 2008 presidential campaign: It was all about women, and not about women...
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How Will the Media Cover Obama?
It's the morning after Election Day and, like millions, I am filled with elation and hope. CNN let...
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