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About Ari Paul

Ari Paul has reported for the Nation, the Guardian, the Forward, the Brooklyn Rail, Vice News, In These Times, Jacobin and many other outlets.
  • Fauci Flames

    Fanning the Fauci flames for Republicans

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 5, 2026 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The congressional grilling of former White House Covid advisor Anthony Fauci, and the resulting editorial responses, weren’t good faith inquiries into the pandemic.

  • Anti-DSA Meltdown

    NYT’s embarrassing anti-DSA meltdown

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 23, 2026 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Democratic Socialists of America candidates won several Democratic primaries for Congress and the state legislature in New York.

  • ADL

    Why do U.S. Media still treat ADL as a credible source on antisemitism?

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 10, 2026 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    When major newspapers write about the definition or prevalence of antisemitism, they frequently look to the ADL.

  • Media Twist

    Media twist opposition to land theft into hatred of a religion

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 22, 2026 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The local media have fanned the misconception that these are anti-Jewish protests, meant to intimidate Jewish worshippers attending synagogue, when in fact they are pro-Palestine protests against illegal land sales that are strategically held inside a house of worship.

  • Pundits Blame Sydney Slaughter on Protest Slogan

    Pundits blame Sydney slaughter on protest slogan

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 16, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Australian officials are still learning about the individuals who carried out the Bondi Beach attack, killing more than a dozen Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney.

  • The Wall Street Journal‘s depiction (11/13/25) of Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson–with correction of the underexposure traditionally applied by corporate media to official enemies to make them look sinister.

    A Seattle socialist’s victory gives elite media the jitters

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 20, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    New York City isn’t the only city to have elected a democratic socialist as mayor.

  • Mamdani

    Mamdani beats Cuomo and the Press hacks (again)

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 5, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    New York City baseball legend Yogi Berra said it best: “It’s déjà vu all over again.”

  • PBS

    CPB is dead, but we need public media more than ever

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 1, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Right-wing media are mostly tickled. The New York Post editorial board (7/18/25) celebrated: “Taxpayers will no longer have to pay for the toxic, biased propaganda that federally funded media have been poisoning America with for the last 60 years.”

  • NBC News

    Trump turns Pentagon into Department of War on First Amendment

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 23, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Journalist access is only one piece of the Trump administration’s full-throttle attack on the free press.

  • Ellison

    As Ellison buys out TikTok, U.S. moves toward one-Party media

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 19, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Larry Ellison, founder of the software firm Oracle, is the second-richest billionaire in both the U.S. and the world, and for a brief moment was No. 1 in the world.

  • NYT

    NYT undermines fight against antisemitism by using it as shield for Zionism

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 17, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Pro-Israel zealots commonly attempt to discredit criticism of the Israeli government by equating such criticism with antisemitism, because Israel is the world’s only state with a Jewish majority.

  • Feds Threaten Wikipedia

    Feds threaten Wikipedia after Right-Wing media uproar

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 29, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.

  • The New York Post (3/10/25)

    In return to ‘war on terror’ propaganda, Murdoch cheers suppression of protest

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 19, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The arrest and possible deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a Green Card holder with a student visa, for his organizing role at Gaza solidarity protests last year has sent shockwaves throughout American society.

  • Illustration of “cultural Marxism” from a neo-Nazi website.

    ‘Cultural Marxism’: The mainstreaming of a Nazi trope

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 4, 2019 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    When Norwegian right-winger Anders Breivik invoked “cultural Marxism” as the reason for his 77-person killing spree in 2011, many observers placed the notion in the same category as the killer—the fringe.

  • Owned (Hachette, 2025)

    Did Left journalists buy into Right-wing ideology–or were they bought?

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 13, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    What is truly more urgent is the fact that a dangerous media class is taking advantage of this media vacuum, at the expense of regular people.

  • Alyssia Finley (Wall Street Journal, 1/12/25)

    Right-Wing sleuths find the LA fires culprit

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 15, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Game-changing fires destroyed Paradise, California, in 2023, and Lahaina, Hawaii, in 2024—clear warnings, if any were still needed, that the climate catastrophe had arrived.

  • Peter Coy (New York Times, 12/13/24)suggested that UnitedHealth’s vertical monopolization of healthcare is “something like a private version of a single-payer national healthcare system.”

    NYT panics over outrage at insurance companies

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 17, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Americans see the systems working in the rest of the world and know that the United States could have a better healthcare regime, but that corporate and government leaders simply choose not to.

  • Brian Thompson

    Murdoch outlets and Bezos’ WaPo demand more sympathy for health insurance execs

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 11, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The early morning murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was met on social media with a “torrent of hate” for health insurance executives.

  • Donald Trump

    How Trump will seek revenge on the Press

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 14, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The infamous Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda many see as a blueprint for the second Trump term, calls for the end to public broadcasting, because it is viewed as liberal propaganda.

  • TikTok

    Judges in TikTok case seem ready to discount First Amendment

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 27, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Earlier this year, despite widespread protest, President Joe Biden signed legislation forcing TikTok’s owner “to sell it or face a nationwide prohibition in the United States”.

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  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Ari Paul

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Ari Paul

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

  • The Public Banking Institute
    Ari Paul

    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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