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Have editorial cartoons been silenced by "fearful editors" who want, among other things, to "appease conservatives"?

In "Depression, Drink and Dissipation," Doug Underwood has produced an extensive new review of the psycho-sexual hang-ups of 187 famous "journalist-literary figures."

A new PEJ study looks at the future of journalism.

However weak-kneed we think our media have been, their questions have grown more assertive, more adversarial, and more demanding over time.

The first in our newly-minted occasional series of "Research Reports" — this one looks at how the press has been dealing with the possibility of American voters electing their first African-American president.