

Director of media relations at Learning Policy Institute, equity advocate, with a basketball jones.
Trump’s nomination of Judge Thapar launched a year of judicial nominees who have become known for their lack of qualifications, their lack of diversity, and their troubling, anti-civil rights records — records that have drawn fierce opposition from the civil and human rights community.
As the debates over trust in media, misinformation and control over information rage, a new Knight-Gallup survey of more than 19,000 U.S. adults shows that Americans believe that the media have an important role to play in our democracy — yet they don’t see that role being fulfilled.