It used to be that if you wanted to know what happened at the local school board meeting, or city council debate, or even in your own neighborhood, you could open up a local paper and read about it. But cutbacks have hit local newsrooms hard — and now a once robust industry is on…

Any American with a social media account in 2016 has seen friends share political news articles, speeches, and memes regarding the year’s presidential election. This latter category may have included “Bernie or Hillary?” posters alleging Sanders’s admiration of lizards, edited images of Donald Trump with small hands, or maps predicting Jeb Bush to win in…

The United States is one of the most highly propagandized societies in the world.[1] Through a combination of cultural insularity, strategic internal messaging, almost constant warfare and overwhelming monetary support for particular political ideologies, the United States presents a case study in autocratic control of dominant institutions that service centers of ideology and power.[2] While…