Though $4-a-gallon gas has faded to $3-a-gallon gas, and a worldwide economic crisis has overshadowed less pressing concerns about filling one's gas tank or even national security, such issues have neither gone away nor become any less pressing in the long run. As our presidential nominees discuss bailouts and economic...

I was recently commissioned to write an e-book titled 101 Ways to Help Save the Planet Every Day. We've all seen guides like these before -- it's so vogue that everyone from, well, Vogue, to your electric company, to every boomer with a website have added their own "10 Tips"...

The news cycle is notoriously ADHD, rushing with the excitement of a six-year-old kid from one story to the next to the next in a relentless barrage of sound and light and, occasionally, genuinely important information. The tragedy of this (one of many, really) is how quickly most stories die,...

Scott McClellan's been busy lately. He spent his week on a relentless drive to sell books get Obama elected speak truth to power, traveling from the Today Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Thursday to Anderson Cooper 360 on Friday. And that's just the beginning.

But almost as interesting...

As illegal immigration grows in both scope and strain on our nation's infrastructure, local and federal lawmakers struggle to find solutions amenable to all. Last week, local authorities, emergency officials, and humanitarians alike expressed deep alarm at the federal government's latest trick in their arsenal against illegal immigration, and rightfully...

We've all heard the arguments for transparency and media access in governmental affairs. The once-secret prisons in Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan stand as one of the nation's most shameful pillars of such arguments.

This blog post will add absolutely nothing new to those arguments; there's nothing left to say...

I have been living in the woods -- literally; I've been hiking the Appalachian Trail -- for the past month. Not quite under a rock, but close enough. So imagine my surprise when I returned to discover what I'd missed: nothing. Absolutely nothing. Four whole weeks -- 28 days,...

As someone who has written repeatedly about the myriad failures of the mainstream media, it soothes my potentially wire-tapped soul to know that organizations such as Project Censored are working hard to pick up the slack. They offer many excellent resources, from a long list of...

Six months ago today, you lost a piece of your soul. You may not have realized it, even though this loss was painful. Even though you are less moral, righteous, and fair for it. Six months ago today, a piece of you was tortured to death--not at the hands...

M.C. Rove and Darth Novak wish to welcome one and all (except small animals who want to keep their heads) to the annual Washington press corps' warm-up circle jerks. (Not to be confused with the main event, coming soon!)

I find events like the Radio and Television...

According to a recent Pew Research poll, the Mistrusted Name in News is just as popular as the Most Trusted. Surprised to see fake anchor Jon Stewart listed right beside old-guard giants like Rather and Brokaw and new-guard stars like Cooper and Williams? Not me. Not one...