Dear Bill, You lost the bet. Time to pay up! Sincerely yours, J. Richard Cohen
Mark Potok | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
It didn't have to end this way for Lou Dobbs. He could have been a contender. But Dobbs, a supremely self-confident man who often mentions his Harvard education in private conversation, just wouldn't listen.
Adam Luna | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
America's top religious and law enforcement leaders are taking a strong stance in favor of sensible immigration reform and it's made the anti-immigrant crowd very nervous.
Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
An internal Congressional Research Service report says that the Secret Service does not that have the resources to deal with the unprecedented number ...
Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
If Jonathan Klein were as responsible an executive as Ted Turner, and as conscientious a citizen as Ted Turner, he would be as concerned as Ted Turner about the danger of Lou Dobbs.
Carol M. Swain | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
A few days ago, I received a notice from a friend informing me that the Southern Poverty Law Center had included me in this week's HateWatch. I linke...
Adam Luna | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media
What else does Dobbs have to do to get fired?
David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
When the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) disrupted the President’s health care address before a joint session of Congress, it was not the first time th...
Karl Frisch | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
If Dobbs won't end his association with FAIR, which the Southern Policy Law Center has designated as a hate group, CNN should do the right thing and end its association with Dobbs.
Carol M. Swain | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Instead of providing readers with a systematic analysis and hard data supporting its warning about a growing threat, the SPLC's report was chocked full of vague generalities and unnamed sources.
Carol M. Swain | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Mission creep occurs when an organization strays beyond its original purpose and engages in actions antithetical to its goals. Rather than monitoring hate groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center has become one.
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media
It looks like CNN president John Klein's laissez faire attitude about Lou Dobbs "birther" obsession is about to be tested. Yesterday we noted that CN...
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
Last Tuesday, CNN host Lou Dobbs, became a focal point of the "birthers" brouhaha, when he hypothesized on his radio show that Obama may not be a pro...
J. Richard Cohen | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
Dobbs' ratings game is so dangerous because there is a segment in our society that is not ready to accept the fact that we have a black man in the White House.
Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Did you catch Liz Cheney on Larry live?/Allowing the birthers' claims to thrive/Carville, quite exasperated on Mr. King/Telling us this is, indeed, a very "nutty thing".
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media
UPDATE 2:30 PM, July 25 MSNBC president Phil Griffin called the claim that President Obama is a foreigner, which has received significant media cover...
Janet Murguía | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
Hate has always been present. But the recent spike in violence against immigrants is being fanned by the flames of the anger and hateful rhetoric being voiced in the debate over immigration.
Mark Potok | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
This special report by the Southern Poverty Law Center shows that domestic right-wing terrorism is far more prevalent than most Americans realize.
Mark Potok | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
John Tanton, the architect of the movement and founder of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has a more than 30-year history of racial extremism.
Mark Potok | Posted 10.11.2008 | Media
We've decided to launch an award to call attention to mainstream figures who make utterly false or statements that have the effect of denigrating an entire group of people. We're calling it the Dobbsy, in honor of Lou Dobbs.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics
So, on last night's Larry King Live, one of the things that Paul Waldman brought up as a way of demonstrating Obama Nation author Jerome Corsi's lack ...
J. Richard Cohen | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media