The core assumption here -- shared by most establishment pundits -- is that the call for criminal investigations is nothing more than a partisan-drive...
David Quigg | Posted 05.27.2009 | Media
Inebriated logic like this from someone of David Broder's seniority and supposed stature makes it easier for serious, curious, civic-minded people to tell themselves that newspapers are expendable.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
As has been pointed out by journalists, human rights lawyers and critics, President Obama has continued -- and continues to defend -- some of the Bush administration's most repressive "War on Terror" policies.
Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media
Jeremy Stone spoke at Tuesday's inaugural ceremony of the Izzy Awards for independent media -- named after legendary journalist I.F. "Izzy" Stone. Here's his short speech.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
Some of the most prominent names in progressive politics launched a major new organization on Thursday dedicated to pinpointing and aiding primary cha...
PBS.org | Posted 03.10.2009 | Media
Is the old media sustaining the old politics? News and analysis with NYU journalism professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen and political journalis...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media
A train is bombed, by terrorists. The president decides that the nation can no longer afford to participate in suspect military actions, so he orders...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media
Forbes Magazine has assembled this list of "The 25 Most Influential Liberals In The U.S. Media," and somehow or another, Maureen Dowd of the New York ...
Ari Melber | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics
The Obama transition team is taking questions again at Change.gov -- while the press has fixated on the Blagojevich scandal, the allegations of torture by officials in the current administration receive scant attention.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media
Last week was a perfect example of how the conservative blogosphere's leading lights have been demoted to ridicule, simply because their efforts have become so thoroughly laughable.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
The 72-year-old McCain looks weak, anemic, elderly; he's not a dynamic personality. Sarah Palin is giving him everything he lacks.
Jennifer Nix | Posted 09.20.2008 | Media
Obama Nation is a pathetic excuse for a book and is just one more example of how the right effectively moves their lies into the national discourse while the left fails to do so with progressive ideas.
Jay Rosen | Posted 08.11.2008 | Home
ABC News was probably duped on a story of huge importance, putting Iraqi fingerprints on anthrax attacks that actually came from the U.S at a time when the case for war was beginning to get traction.
RJ Eskow | Posted 08.08.2008 | Media
The Right's winning the email war, which could prove decisive. It would be ironic if, after all these innovations, Democrats were beaten by a tool that's so crude yet effective.
Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
In American politics, exceedingly few positions generate overwhelming agreement across the ideological spectrum. Even propositions that ought to be un...
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
The bitter ideological debate over Barack Obama's decision to support to controversial national security wiretapping legislation and other "moves to t...
The Huffington Post | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
A war of words has broken out between two of the progressive blogosphere's most beloved figures: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and blogger/author Glenn Gree...
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 06.30.2008 | Home
When other candidates tack left or right between the party primary and election day, it's a form of Kabuki; we all know what they really stand for because they've left legislative paper trails that show us.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media
McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.
Art Levine | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
The Democratic-led Congress, with the support of key House leaders, is moving quickly to expand unconstitutional spying authority on Americans and reward telecoms for breaking the law.
Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 06.07.2008 | Media
Politico reporter Mike Allen, formerly of The Washington Post and Time, appeared yesterday on the show of right-wing radio host Mike Gallagher. The tw...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.08.2008 | Media
The near-complete blackout on the Pentagon propaganda story, self-imposed by the culpable news organizations, is a despicable abdication of their role as a constitutionally protected check on our government. Read More Probing a Political Paradox: Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate How is it that the 28 percent of the population that continues to support George W. Bush no matter how many bodies pile up in Iraq, how many jobs disappear overseas, or how high gas prices get, continues to dominate our politics? Read More Watch Arianna On: Good Morning America, 20/20, Charlie Rose, Real Time, The Situation Room, AC 360, CNN's Election Center, and MobLogic TV
Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Over the weekend, I wrote about an adulating interview which CNN's John King conducted with John McCain while riding on the storied Straight Talk Expr...
Salon.com | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics