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Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Richard Stengel ## Richard Stengel Richard Stengel is the former Editor of TIME, an MSNBC analyst, and the author of [_Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation_](https://www.amazon.com/Information-Wars-Global-Against-Disinformation/dp/0802147984). ## Richard Stengel *  Nov 24, 2025 ### [The Marketplace of Ideas Isn't Working](https://time.com/7335763/marketplace-of-ideas-theory-disinformation/) Americans' freedom of speech is predicated on the theory of a marketplace of ideas. But this model i... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 1, 2025 ### [The Arc of History is Bending Backward](https://time.com/7321529/democracy-autocracy-fascism-history/) Democracy isn’t over, yet. Here how to counter the democratic recession. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 16, 2025 ### [Trump and Putin Didn’t Make a Deal, but Putin Still Won](https://time.com/7310085/trump-deal-putin-won/) "Putin is still milking Trump’s fanboy affection. He was the big winner today because he didn't have... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 23, 2025 ### [Why the Alien Enemies Act Should be Repealed](https://time.com/7288251/alien-enemies-act-repealed/) "The Alien Enemies Act is one of the worst laws still in force in the United States, and it probably... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 15, 2025 ### [A History of Attacks on the Department of Ed](https://time.com/7225339/history-efforts-end-department-of-education/) President Donald Trump is attempting to dismantle the Department of Education. But his efforts are h... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 9, 2024 ### [How the Media Missed Trump's Comeback](https://time.com/7174487/what-the-media-missed-election-2024/) While the mainstream media focused on the candidate, the story was an electorate shifting right, Ric... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 28, 2024 ### [Kamala Harris Embraces—and Redefines—American Exceptionalism](https://time.com/7015394/american-exceptionalism-kamala-harris-trump/) While Donald Trump rejects it. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 17, 2024 ### [How Kamala Harris Took 'Freedom' Back from the GOP](https://time.com/7012007/at-the-democratic-convention-kamala-harris-will-use-the-language-republicans-used-to/) The candidate has made the word theme of her campaign, but with a positive spin. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 9, 2024 ### [Resurgence of Global Anti-Americanism](https://time.com/6553202/resurgence-global-anti-americanism-essay/) America's support of Israel is leading to a wave of anti-Americanism across the world, warns Richard... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 9, 2023 ### [The Case for Protecting AI-Generated Speech With the First Amendment](https://time.com/6278220/protecting-ai-generated-speech-first-amendment/) Should content created by generative AI have free speech protections? [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 27, 2023 ### [Did the CIA Betray Nelson Mandela?](https://time.com/6258292/nelson-mandela-cia-arrest/) In 1962 Nelson Mandela was arrested by the South African police. Richard Stengel reports on the CIA'... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 20, 2022 ### [Putin May Just Be Winning the Information War Outside of the U.S. and Europe](https://time.com/6179221/putin-information-war-column/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 18, 2022 ### [Ukrainian Refugees Try to Find Their Way in Poland](https://time.com/6167995/poland-ukraine-refugees/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 27, 2021 ### [Column: Desmond Tutu, a Beacon of Moral Justice](https://time.com/6131665/desmond-tutu-obituary-south-africa/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 12, 2021 ### [How Nelson Mandela Came to Work with F.W. de Klerk to End Apartheid](https://time.com/6116963/nelson-mandela-fw-de-klerk/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/richard-stengel/","name":"Richard Stengel"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/richard-stengel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/richard-stengel/"},"name":"Richard Stengel","jobTitle":"Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME.","description":"Richard Stengel is the former Editor of TIME, an MSNBC analyst, and the author of Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation.","url":"https://time.com/author/richard-stengel/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```