The Science Journalism Crisis: Why Most Health News Is Wrong
Most health headlines misrepresent the science behind them—here's how to spot the distortions and find what experts actually know
Algorithm Bubbles: How Your News Feed Becomes an Echo Chamber
Your personalized feed is building walls around your worldview—here's how to see over them
The Expertise Industrial Complex: Who Gets to Be an 'Expert' and Why
Media experts aren't selected for what they know—they're selected for how they perform
The Memory Hole: How News Sites Secretly Edit Their Mistakes
When news organizations can rewrite history with a keystroke, your archives become the only reliable record.
Partisan Tells: Subtle Signs an Article Has Picked a Side
How to spot when neutral-looking news is quietly nudging you toward a conclusion
Language Wars: How Word Choices Reveal Media Bias
The vocabulary of news coverage reveals political positioning before a single fact is stated
Government Sources: When Official Means Biased, Not Accurate
Learn to spot when government statements deserve scrutiny, not automatic trust, and where to find the perspectives official sources leave out
Opinion Laundering: How Speculation Becomes 'Fact' Through Repetition
Learn to trace confident claims back to their shaky origins before spreading speculation dressed as fact
Cable News Theater: Understanding Television's Reality Distortion Field
Learn to separate genuine news from manufactured drama by understanding the production tricks that keep cable viewers anxious and watching.
The Foreign Correspondent Illusion: Why International News Gets Everything Wrong
How language barriers, elite sources, and parachute journalism distort foreign coverage—and where to find better international perspectives
The Wikipedia Test: Instantly Spot Fake Experts and Phantom Think Tanks
A sixty-second verification method that separates genuine authorities from manufactured credibility using simple web searches anyone can do.
Why Your Uncle's Facebook Post Feels More Convincing Than The New York Times
Learn why your brain trusts personal stories over expert journalism—and the simple questions that help you think more clearly about conflicting information.
Why Boring News Sources Are Usually Right: The Inverse Relationship Between Drama and Truth
The most trustworthy information often hides behind the dullest packaging—learning to appreciate boring sources is a superpower for navigating modern media.
The Secret Grammar of Reliable News: What Real Journalists Never Write
Learn the linguistic patterns that separate trustworthy journalism from misleading content—and become a more confident news consumer in minutes.
The Comment Section Oracle: What Reader Reactions Reveal About Article Quality
Discover how comment sections reveal more about news reliability than the articles themselves through patterns of debate and correction
The Three-Source Rule: Building Your Personal Fact-Checking System
Learn how triangulating between different source types reveals what's actually happening versus what people want you to believe
Breaking News Addiction: Why The First Story Is Always Wrong
Learn to decode the predictable chaos of breaking news and protect your sanity while staying genuinely informed
Your Brain on Headlines: The Neuroscience of News Manipulation
Discover how news headlines hack your neural pathways and learn defensive techniques to reclaim control of your information diet
Press Release Journalism: Spotting Stories That Are Actually Advertisements
Learn to detect when news articles are really just corporate press releases in disguise, saving yourself from stealth advertising
The Outrage Industrial Complex: How Anger Became the Internet's Currency
Discover why your online anger makes others rich and learn practical strategies to protect your emotional well-being from manipulation
Statistical Sorcery: How Numbers Lie Even When They're Technically True
Unmask the magic tricks that transform honest data into dishonest headlines with three simple questions anyone can ask
Follow the Money: Decoding Media Ownership and Its Hidden Influence
Learn to trace the financial strings controlling your news feed and discover which sources you can actually trust
Anonymous Sources Decoded: When 'Officials Say' Means Something and When It Doesn't
Learn to distinguish between sources protecting themselves while revealing truth and those hiding behind anonymity to manipulate public opinion