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Sept. 11 soon came along and gave us an actual crisis to focus on. But it was hardly the end of turning fear into infotainment. If anything, terrorism became more fodder for it.
France Goes Its Own Way The Front National is the big beast of Europe's far right. It was France's third-largest political party for much of this decade, and its leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was runner-up in the 2002 French presidential elections. So in June the...
You're trying to do this in the middle of a recession. That's a big load to take on - which then gives traction to this notion that we are interested in expanding government, which then feeds into suspicions that somehow health care is another big government project that we...
The scene at this sweaty central American checkpoint was grand political theater. On July 24, ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, threatened with arrest if he ever again set foot in his homeland, ducked across the border before crowds of media and supporters--and then rapidly strode back into neighboring Nicaragua...
So we fear and fetishize them over more likely but duller threats; that's a common flaw of risk assessment. Ideally, the media should help us place our worries in perspective. But often they encourage the disaster mentality by focusing on the trendy menace--the sleeper cell, the Obama-conspiracy...