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Advocacy Journalism and the Distortion of Civic Discourse

The continued circulation of pieces like The Marshall Project’s 2022 article “Prison Money Diaries: What People Really Make (and Spend) Behind Bars” reveals a deeper problem in contemporary public-policy debate: the point at which advocacy journalism crosses from investigation into narrative management. When a publication presents itself as

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The Morning America Changed

Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, the pictures have aged. The memory has not. September 11, 2001, began as an ordinary Tuesday morning, which may be one reason the memory remains so powerful twenty-five years later. People drove to work, children arrived at school, airplanes climbed into clear