For hundreds of years, Russia has elevated its political leaders as figureheads. That’s part of what makes its propaganda so convincing.
Articles on Russian ads
Displaying all articles
America is being ‘hysterical’ about Russian troop buildups near the Ukrainian border. That’s the official news in Russia, where citizens are getting government’s preferred view of the Ukraine crisis.
Western leaders learned the hard way 25 years ago that conflict in the Balkans can become ethnic cleansing. Add Russia into the mix, and Montenegro’s new problems are US and European problems, too.
Don’t swear off social media. Use it to your advantage.
In 38 US cities, hate crimes rose 12 percent in 2017. There were 1,038 hate crimes in the nation’s 10 largest cities – the most in more than a decade.
In a fight for the global flow of information, social media firms must be regulated. Their billions of dollars in revenue put their financial interests in conflict with truth and democracy.
A scholar asks whether democracy itself is at risk in a world where social media is creating deeply polarized groups of individuals who tend to believe everything they hear.
Top contributors
-
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, West Virginia University
-
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, California State University, San Bernardino
-
Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Director, Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, California State University, San Bernardino
-
Associate Professor, Criminology, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada
-
Ph.D. Student in Doctrinal Theology, Concordia Seminary
-
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
-
Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University
-
Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Kansas
-
Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
-
Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, University of South Florida