Making Sense of the News
Like Duolingo, but for Making Sense of the News. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo turns Making Sense of the News into a game you actually finish. Levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that make it stick. Five minutes a day.
Where Making Sense of the News takes you
Learn how to decode the headlines and understand the hidden forces shaping our world. Move beyond the surface of daily news to see how power, symbols, and emergencies define our reality.
- 1
Spotting the Power in the Room
- Who Gets to Make the Rules
- Setting the Agenda and Hiding the Options
- How Your Preferences Are Shaped
- Politics in Your Everyday Life
- 2
The Art of Being Seen
- Why Visibility Matters in Politics
- Bodies as Symbols of the Nation
- The Logic of Cleanliness and Danger
- Who Stays in the Shadows
- Authority and the Right to Lead
- The Different Ways We Are Represented
- 3
When the Rules Change: Emergencies
- Normal Politics vs Crisis Mode
- The Iran Nuclear Deal and Diplomacy
- Sanctions and Economic Pressure
- 4
Conflict and Global Tension
- The Language of Proxy Wars
- Deterrence and Keeping the Peace
- The Role of International Watchdogs
- The Impact of the War on Terror
- Escalation and the Twelve-Day War
- 5
Us vs Them: How Boundaries are Built
- The Process of Othering
- Securitization and Making Things Scary
- The State of Exception
- Social Construction of Enemies
- Exclusion and Social Hierarchies
5 sections · 23 units · 92 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If a person is forced to hand over their wallet at gunpoint, what is being exercised?
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