Christian Christensen

Christian Christensen is an American citizen and professor of journalism at JMK, Stockholm University. He contributes to the Guardian and Common Dreams.

Are Dead Children The Price of Freedom in America?

The moral perversity that allows one to think that universal healthcare is tyranny but dead school children are the price of freedom is what is corroding the soul of the United States.

Christian Christensen
作者 Christian Christensen
A gun-rights activist carries his rifle with an American flag during a "National Day of Resistance" rally at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 23, 2013. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

There is a sickness eating at the body and soul of my home country, and it is on full view for the world to see. When the news broke on Valentine’s Day that 17 people—mostly young students—had lost their lives in Parkland, Florida, one could be forgiven for being numb. Of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in US history, six have come after 2012.

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We Need To Stop Using Fox News As An Alibi For Trump’s Islamophobia

“When we consider the issues upon which Trump foc […]

Christian Christensen
作者 Christian Christensen
"When we consider the issues upon which Trump focuses," writes Christensen, "it is painfully evident that he is riffing off of a narrative decades in the making, and a narrative supported by the bastions of supposedly 'liberal' media." (Image: Fox News/Screenshot)

Fox News is a godsend for US journalism. Not because it is a purveyor of critical investigative reporting, of course, but because it provides an in-house scapegoat for the US news media to “explain” the rise of a candidate like Donald Trump. When Fox News and Trump recently engaged in a very public battle, many pundits noted (with a fair degree

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