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Remembering a journalist, biographer and head of the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

Media watchdogs who slept through the Bush era now have little interest in examining just how many of our liberties were lost.

The uproar over the New York Post's racially insensitive cartoon has nothing to do with Al Sharpton and everything to do with the ugly history of stereotypes.

This just in: we won the Iraq War. And for the past eight years George W. Bush kept us safe.

Molly Ivins would have loved the outcome of the November election. In a way, she saw it coming.

Abe Foxman and Bill Kristol gutlessly attack Bill Moyers and David Grossman.

There's panic in the neocon playground as young liberal Jewish bloggers refuse to be silenced.

After the way they goaded us into an epic military disaster, why do media warmongers still have jobs?

The Bush administration has systematically blocked historians' access to government archives. Does Obama hold the key to set information free?

A legendary African-American journalist is cast off by Newsday, and the profession is poorer for it.

Blogs

Eric on how The New Republic's back of the book comes close to redeeming the magazine from the front.

October 21, 2011

The misleading press coverage of the debt fight reveals a fundamental problem with today’s journalism—the quest for innocence and balance when it does not exist.

July 27, 2011

There are plenty of real problems with Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus. But her migraines and his mannerisms are not two of them.

July 24, 2011

 Fox News does its master Murdoch's bidding in playing down the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. 

July 19, 2011

Eric sends a drink back and Reed spars with former ABC News president David Westin.

July 15, 2011

Joe Allen's new book People Wasn’t Made to Burn is nothing less than a reinvention of the true crime genre.

July 11, 2011

Editors and colleauges of Shane Bauer, a Nation contributor, urge Iran to release him and his friend Josh Fattal.

May 3, 2011

Progressives cheered when it was announced Wednesday that Glenn Beck would be “transitioning” off his Fox News show. Beck’s not gone for good, of course, but his daily screeds against the likes of Van Jones and Frances Fox Piven will be somewhat more limited—perhaps to radio.

April 7, 2011

The recent coverage of new Obama campaign manager Jim Messina illustrates how top Washington sources curry favor with the powerful sources they cover.

April 5, 2011

Thanks to cable news, discredited experts and government officials are regularly reborn as trusted authorities.

March 29, 2011
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