The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Science fiction isn’t limited to predicting tech developments: It’s more broadly concerned with imagining possible futures, or alternative presents.

If the standard we hold for who can vote is the consent of the governed, why shouldn’t children be included?

The Hays Code, a censorship system that saw movies as "business, pure and simple," kept Hollywood on a short leash... until a 1952 Supreme Court decision declared it unconstitutional.

White House officials, like parents, are learning how limiting screen time can lead to better focus. But what does "screen time" really mean?

As a society becomes increasingly unstable, linguistic innovation happens more rapidly.

For more than a century, Hollywood has been offering Americans lifestyle advice on how to live better, and the public has been gobbling it up.

The first live-tweeting presidency resembles the broadcast-era version of democracy more than the kind of democracy the internet was supposed to enable.

What do peoples' accents really reveal about them? The villainous British accent crystallizes the love-hate special relationship between the US and the UK.

Foreign powers have been interfering in our politics since day one, when we welcomed it from France, Spain, and the Netherlands.

Fake news has plenty of precedents in the history of mass media, and particularly, in the history of American journalism.