May 24, 2012, New York -- Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a petition requesting the Army Court of Criminal Appeals to order th...
The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.16.2012
Rachel Maddow accused Fox News on Tuesday of inventing a scandal out of whole cloth to help Mitt Romney's campaign. In a segment that took up nearl...
Posted 04.26.2012
President Obama is accused of lying about federal laws regarding marijuana. The charge, from Fire Dog Lake's Jon Walker, comes after the president'...
Renee Parsons | Posted 04.10.2012
For all of its good intentions in 1978, FISA has since been thrust into dangerous, uncharted territory, morphing into a vehicle of unintended consequences.
Bob Cesca | Posted 05.27.2012
This week's show highlights: The Anwar Al-AwlakikKilling and Bob Debates Greenwald on Twitter again; Ron Paul's mercenary army; the contradictions of war and politics; healthcare reform in the Supreme Court; the individual mandate defined, and other topics.
salon.com | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 04.29.2012
Apparently, not only does NBCÂ continue to present McCaffrey to its viewers as some sort of objective analyst, but NBC News executives use him as some...
Posted 02.17.2012
Salon's Glenn Greenwald and Erin Burnett went back and forth over Twitter on Friday after Greenwald savaged a recent segment about Iran on Burnett's C...
Posted 04.16.2012
Current's Cenk Uygur and blogger Glenn Greenwald talked about media coverage of Iran on Tuesday's "The Young Turks." Both agreed that large sections o...
Bob Cesca | Posted 03.20.2012
Should we undermine the most progressive-minded president in at least a generation and will his failure help or hurt the progressive cause? Will his failure pave the way for a more progressive president or a less progressive president? This is the debate on the left.
William Astore | Posted 03.14.2012
The ideal of freedom of the press, so crucial to democracy, is upheld only when its practitioners willingly challenge the so-called "facts" of the powerful. Give us a watchdog press willing to bite the hand that feeds it, not a lapdog that snaps up all the little treats fed to it by its masters.
Dan Kennedy | Posted 02.12.2012
Perhaps the biggest lie of all is that fact-checking can act as some sort of short-cut to the truth.
Bob Cesca | Posted 02.01.2012
This week we discus Occupy Wall Street and the Homeland Security conspiracy theory; Michael Moore and Naomi Wolf rumor-mongering; progressive outrage; Twitter fights; and other issues.
Brandt Goldstein | Posted 01.11.2012
On November 9, celebrity chef Mario Batali made the mistake of comparing Wall Street bankers to Hitler. (He also threw Stalin in there, but let's keep this simple.)
Bob Cesca | Posted 01.05.2012
This week we discuss the end of the Iraq War, the vanity of liberal perfectionism, compromising with the Republicans, political reality, Pat Buchanan and his new book, and other topics.
Timothy Karr | Posted 12.03.2011
By inserting themselves in the midst of the problem and applying their network strength against the establishment greed that has sunk our democracy to an historical low, the "Occupy" protesters have struck upon something that connects the concerns of many.
Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.29.2011
We plan to use every bit of our Free Speech guarantees in line with our Founding Fathers' wisdom this next week in Freedom Plaza.
Sandy Goodman | Posted 11.28.2011
Congratulations. You finally got around to doing a story about the Wall Street protests last night on "All Things Considered," after 11 days of ignoring them.
Posted 11.27.2011
As we all know, Glenn Greenwald leads a life with many facets: he is part no-holds-barred blogger, part family man, Brazilian resident and lover of do...
Democracy Now! | Posted 10.30.2011
To reflect on Cheney's tenure in the George W. Bush administration, Democracy Now! speaks with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Posted 10.29.2011
Dick Cheney's new memoir has been making waves since the former vice president first signed a multi-million dollar publishing deal with Simon & Schust...
The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 10.26.2011
MSNBC's Chris Hayes and blogger Glenn Greenwald joined forces on Thursday's "Last Word" to condemn American society for welcoming Dick Cheney back int...
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 09.04.2011
As a reporter and editor who dealt extensively with conflicts around the world, Nasr's learned countless lessons. After her Twitter flap, she became a non-person on CNN's blogosphere.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.20.2011
Now all Americans can breathe a huge sigh of relief because the Centers for Disease Control just posted instructions so we can all adequately prepare for "Zombie Armageddon."
Dylan Ratigan | Posted 07.18.2011
For over a decade, we've been running our politics on fear so often that it's hardly noticeable. The debt ceiling kabuki is a prime example: we'll face catastrophic economic consequences if we don't raise the ceiling, and the end of America if we don't cut entitlements.
Out Magazine | Posted 06.19.2011
Given Greenwald's intellectual fecundity and argumentative ferocity, being gay may be the least interesting thing about him. But even Greenwald doesn'...
Center for Constitutional Rights | Posted 05.24.2012