One of the not-funny ironies of the 21st century has been that everything we thought was social media is actually just mass media, except it’s terrible and broken. Luckily, journalists and creators ...

Martin Gurri discusses how social media and the internet have fundamentally changed the public’s relationship to institutions and power. This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein ...

When a shocking tragedy such as a mass shooting dominates the news cycle, many of us instinctively lean in, watch, and listen intently. We want to understand what happened, who was responsible, and ...