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December 23, 2008
Cutting Charlie Rangel loose would prove just how serious Obama is about transforming Washington's toxic culture of self-enrichment.
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December 10, 2008
Once again, the MSM is casting Americans as far less liberal than they actually are.
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November 25, 2008
CBS News and the Washington Post go into overtime expunging liberal bias.
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November 13, 2008
A mighty train of change is coming to Washington: will the insider establishment hop aboard?
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October 29, 2008
All evidence to the contrary, mainstream media continue to frame election issues with discredited right-wing assumptions.
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October 16, 2008
Politics ain't beanbag, but the thuggishness of McCain and Palin and their conservative media enablers have infected our political discourse.
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October 1, 2008
That McCain and Palin actually have a shot at the White House gives one pause contemplating the future of this country.
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October 1, 2008
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September 17, 2008
John McCain is determined to lie his way into the White House, and pundits and reporters are doing everything they can to enable that strategy.
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September 3, 2008
Nothing short of a divine thunderbolt will get Obama's message through to the brain-dead media establishment.
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September 3, 2008
Israeli writers and intellectuals look at their nation and its problems in a more nuanced and realistic way than most Americans.
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August 29, 2008
Since they got all the megastories wrong in Denver, here's a primer for the media horde as they descend on St. Paul.
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August 26, 2008
The national news narrative from Denver is completely nuts: consider the unsourced myth of the Clinton-Obama feud.
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August 25, 2008
If there were any real news here, 15,000 journalists would be reporting it. Instead, they gather soundbites from a few nut cases who consider politics a form of therapy.
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August 13, 2008
Dana Milbank's coverage of Obama in the Washington Post has become a symbol of a press corps that is almost as the Bush Administration.
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July 16, 2008
While some of America's smartest and most civic-minded people are trying to save daily newspapers, the media moguls who can make a difference seem to be completely off their rockers.
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June 26, 2008
Barack Obama got it right on Iraq six years ago. Now, perhaps, so can the rest of us.
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June 19, 2008
He' s not the maverick the mainstream media have proclaimed him to be.
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June 12, 2008
They enabled the Iraq catastrophe and now spin a self-flattering narrative to excuse their failings.
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May 29, 2008
Take a look at the qualities right-wing pundits so admire about dove-turned-hawk, Dem-turned-Republican Joe Lieberman.
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May 15, 2008
Pundits embrace the fantasy of Hillary Clinton's candidacy as foolishly as they embraced the Iraq War.
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May 14, 2008
Readers write back on Jeremiah Wright's church and Henry Siegman's criticism of Israel; Eric Alterman answers his critics.
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May 1, 2008
A serious debate focused about torture, wiretapping, food prices, world hunger... oh, wait. That's the kind of fairy tale they don't do at Disney.
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April 17, 2008
The politics of tenure at Barnard and beyond.
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March 27, 2008
Why do conservatives continue to feel oppressed by the "liberal elite"?
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March 20, 2008
A principled academic gets ground up in the media hypocrisy machine.
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March 6, 2008
What do neocons and their media mouthpieces fear most about Obama's stance on Israel? Could it be honesty?
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February 21, 2008
Dumb and dumber: reviewing new books by David Frum and Jonah Goldberg.
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February 7, 2008
Thanks to a cowed media, scaremongering is the only remaining area of conservative competence.
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January 24, 2008
How can newspapers survive financial meltdown if they surrender to a culture of defeat?
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January 23, 2008
Eric Alterman and Alan Dershowitz exchange views on who speaks for American Jews; readers debate endorsements and praise Stuart Klawans's review of There Will Be Blood.
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January 10, 2008
Truth, lies and attacks on Democrats from columnists at the Washington Post and the New York Times.
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