By Janiyah Gaston >> Less than 48 hours before the opening of the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, the organization announced that former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump would speak on the opening day. I hadn’t left yet for Chicago, and at first, I was not sure it was even true
By Nathan Bieneman >> The Trump campaign has aggressively pursued a strategy of podcast appearances in the last weeks leading up to the Nov. 5 election in an effort to appeal to young men ages 18 to 24, a voting bloc that consistently has the lowest rate of voter turnout. According to the Center for
By Jackie Spinner >> In 1988 I was a freshman in college, and the country had just elected George H.W. Bush president. More than half of young voters (53%), ages 18 to 29, voted for Bush, who beat former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. Still, they represented just 20% of the total voter turnout. Four years
Students in the “Cartooning” class at Columbia College Chicago created cartoons about the 2024 election. The class is taught by Richard Laurent, who worked as an editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Laurent is an adjunct at Columbia. Some of the cartoons were first published in the Columbia Chronicle and are reprinted with permission.
By Jackie Spinner Earlier this year, Will Lewis, the Washington Post’s new publisher and CEO, disclosed in a staff meeting that the Post had lost nearly half of its digital subscribers since the peak of 2020 when Donald Trump was still president and the COVID-19 pandemic was raging. The Post had already announced that it
