A Preposterous Pre-Digital Primer
In the days before the internet, how did out-of-town journalists transmit typewritten stories to their editors? They folded the stories into paper airplanes and hurled them out of hotel windows.
In the days before the internet, how did out-of-town journalists transmit typewritten stories to their editors? They folded the stories into paper airplanes and hurled them out of hotel windows.
John Feffer | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Don't hold your breath waiting for a mea culpa from the 43rd president. Instead, it's left to Barack Obama to come to terms with the Bush legacy.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
For many Democrats, the 1999 U.S-led war in Yugoslavia was a "good" war, in contrast to the "bad" war in Iraq. But it was still an unnecessary and illegal war, with political consequences that are far from settled.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
A death at Guantánamo is always felt keenly in the Muslim world, and is also uncomfortable for the Obama administration, which claims that it is running a "humane" facility.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
You can't turn on your TV these days without seeing the former veep with his latest account of what they did back when they were in charge, why they did it and how wonderfully it all worked. What's up with that?
Naomi Wolf | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
Why are the Congressional leadership of both parties bizarrely silent now, when the American people are demanding an investigation and prosecution of the crimes represented in the abuse photos?
Washington Post | Richard A. Clarke | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
Top officials from the Bush administration have hit upon a revealing new theme as they retrospectively justify their national security policies. Call ...
Eric Alterman | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
Crossposted with the Center for American Progress Eric Alterman, Danielle Ivory Former President George W. Bush recently mused with the press about...
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
For all of the suspicion and projection upon her, Speaker Pelosi is really like a mom making her kids behave politely at a fancy restaurant.
New York Times | Jim Rutenberg and Motoko Rich | Posted 06.23.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON -- With his sustained blitz of television appearances and speeches, former Vice President Dick Cheney has established himself as perhaps th...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again?
Mike Lux | Posted 06.22.2009 | Business
Given how awful things were on January 20, the President deserves a great deal of credit for keeping our entire economic system from sliding into another Great Depression.
David Rees | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy
As far as I could tell, his speech was actually some weird kind of mouth-yoga where you keep returning to "9/11" position every thirty seconds.
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Look at the sentence, "Hold[ing] individuals to keep them from carrying out an act of war," replace "an act of war" with "any crime," and you will realize why the proposed policy is so terrifying.
Steven Weber | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
The stark contrast between Dick Cheney and President Obama bespeaks the contrast in devotion to this country and its citizens.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business
As I toured the U.S. last week on the 11-state, 32-city "Keep it Made in America" bus tour. I talked to unemployed manufacturing workers who are desperate.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
The slimy bastards of the Bush Administration contributed to the deaths of more Americans at the hands of a foreign power than any President in the history of the United States.
Disgrasian | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
They used to put Scripture like this on t-shirts in my Southern Baptist youth group, to get us kids pumped about spending the first week of summer, the first taste of freedom...quietly studying the Bible.
Jon Soltz | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
As someone who still has friends over in Iraq and Afghanistan, it boils my blood to think that insurgents and terrorists now have something else to show around as "proof" that America is "fighting a war on Islam."
Josh Dorner | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green
Rather than being some shadowy "White House document" objecting to those overzealous greens at the EPA, it could have been written by almost anyone within the vast federal bureaucracy.
The Progress Report | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
The same conservatives railing that Pelosi should have loudly objected to the program also defended the president's absolute right to order abusive interrogations, with or without congressional approval.
Jim Wallis | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green
We cannot claim to care for the poor while we turn our backs on our role in the destruction of the most basic resources our neighbors need for survival.
Steve Benen | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
It's a real shame Bush and Cheney screwed up so spectacularly, and ignored the law so systematically, that it's interfering with Obama's desire to govern. But Obama signed up for this gig.
Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
The Hill flags this interesting line from Senator Lindsey Graham about the way the Bush administration viewed the rule of law. During a hearing on th...
James Moeller | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Why does it seem as if Obama is everywhere all the time, if he's really not?
Dave Astor | Posted 07.11.2009 | Comedy