Investigative reporter/editor Thomas Lipscomb is a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future (USC). He broke stories on questions about the military records of both John Kerry and George W. Bush in the 2004 election in the Chicago Sun-Times and the New York Sun. He founded Times Books at The New York Times Company.

Blog Entries by Thomas Lipscomb

Maybe Brzezinski is Half Right?

Posted September 22, 2009 | 02:25 PM (EST)


Former Carter National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski made news in an interview implying that the US should be prepared to militarily confront any Israeli planes headed for a preemptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities they suspect to be developing nuclear weapons.

"We are not exactly impotent little babies. They have...

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Is Bernie Goldberg Right? Had Bush "In Fact Volunteered to Go to Vietnam?"

156 Comments | Posted August 28, 2009 | 03:39 PM (EST)


Former CBS News journalist Bernard Goldberg is making a major claim on his website and in his appearance as a Fox News consultant on The O'Reilly Factor this week. He claims to have found "A 'Lost' Fact in the Rathergate Mess."

According to Goldberg: "Until now, the controversy...

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Fast Moves with A Moveable Feast

4 Comments | Posted July 26, 2009 | 07:32 PM (EST)


One of Ernest Hemingway's grandchildren, Seán Hemingway, who works as an associate curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has decided to take a hatchet to a work of art. The mutilated product will be placed on public exhibit next month.

Of course A Moveable Feast is a literary...

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Why Running "On the Record" Is Harder Than You Think

Posted June 29, 2008 | 10:17 PM (EST)


The past several weeks have seen charges and countercharges flying over the claimed release of medical records by the current prospective Democrat and GOP candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain.

It would seem to be a relative uncomplicated process, but the pack of lawyers serving both sides continue to create...

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