Adam Serwer is a senior editor at The Atlantic, covering politics. He has previously worked for BuzzFeed News, MSNBC, Mother Jones and The American Prospect.

Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.  Recent public attention and debate around “fake news” has highlighted the growing challenge of determining information veracity online. This is a complex and dynamic problem at the intersection of technology, human cognition, and human behavior—i.e. our strategies and heuristics for making

The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post political cartoonist Tom Toles will discuss their collaborative book, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, & Driving Us Crazy, which, through satire, explores the thinking behind climate change denial in the face of overwhelming scientific

Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. The talk will highlight current research at the MIT Media Lab’s Laboratory for Social Machines where we develop methods for large scale analysis of social media and news. Based on our analytics, the talk will describe “ailments” of the public sphere

A writing workshop for students with Jelani Cobb, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence; staff writer, The New Yorker, covering  race, politics, history, and culture; and Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University. Co-sponsored with the HKS Communications Program.

A writing workshop for students with Jelani Cobb, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence; staff writer, The New Yorker, covering  race, politics, history, and culture; and Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University. Co-sponsored with the HKS Communications Program.

A writing workshop for students with Jelani Cobb, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence; staff writer, The New Yorker, covering  race, politics, history, and culture; and Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University. Co-sponsored with the HKS Communications Program.

A writing workshop for students with Jelani Cobb, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence; staff writer, The New Yorker, covering  race, politics, history, and culture; and Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University. Co-sponsored with the HKS Communications Program.

A panel discussion with the finalists and special citation awardees for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Panelists will discuss the making of their stories, which include coverage of the Russia investigation, injustice in the Chicago legal system, opioid addiction, sexual harassment and assault, and other pressing issues. Open to the public. Panelists:  Shannon Mullen, Staff Writer,