General McChrystal's recommendation for more troops and material has a distinctly Westmorelandian flavor to it. If approved, it could create an additional $40 to$80 billion per annum in war costs.
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.
For years liberals and conservatives have argued back and forth about a press biased against their side. President Obama is now leading a crusade agai...
The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.
On March 7, 1965, Jack and I met for the first time, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, Alabama, he reporting for the Times and I for CBS News.
In White House news, upon hearing about the six-year old boy from Colorado who flew away in his parent's helium balloon, President Obama decided to es...
Some have said that the two party system is what makes us strong. They say it helps create a balance of power with one side keeping tabs on the other...
The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.
First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...
William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.
Last time I checked -- this was a proud capitalist country. Founded on the principles of the great Adam Smith. We are all about making money -- not nursing a bunch of malingerers and malcontents.
Is the death of an esteemed giant in American journalism less newsworthy than a second-tier celebrity wedding?
A letter from former, twice governor Wally Hickel ran in Sunday's Anchorage Daily News. I think it's well worth a read.
Long before The Daily Show, long before The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live was making fun of the news in a way that no one had ever seen before.
Even though my radical liberalism has softened over the years, I've never come close to voting Republican. So I was stunned when my then 17-year-old son announced that he wanted to join the Marines.
Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean discuss the Pentagon Papers 30 years later, Eric Holder, torture prosecutions, and whether public opinion matters.
DeMint and Armey's public pretense that the Taxpayer March was non-partisan, with absolutely no racial overtone or anti-Obama motive to it, is a means to play the race card while disavowing it.
I only vaguely remember even meeting my grandfather, but it's everything I've learned about him since that has had such an impact on my life.
What has happened to the anti-war movement of old? Why have we as a nation allowed two simultaneous wars to be waged in our name?
A broad number of polls indicate that progressive opinion, particularly in the area of health care, is much more profoundly aligned with popular opinion than the damp squib of a proposal currently being championed by the president.
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