Another Super Bowl, Another Scandal Another Super Bowl, Another Scandal
It's Super Bowl season, another year, another scandal. This year's outburst over CBS's $3 million Focus on the Family ad has revived the mythology around another Super Bowl ad, t...
Feb 5, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Climate Science Under Fire Climate Science Under Fire
The drizzle of allegations that climate scientists have fudged data, drawn on dodgy sources, withheld information and frozen out dissenters has now become a downpour.
Feb 5, 2010 / Maria Margaronis
Last Flight to Abu Dhabi Last Flight to Abu Dhabi
Billy Bragg, a living legend of the British punk and folk music scenes, just released a new song as catchy and relevant as anything he's produced in many years.
Feb 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Peter Rothberg
Sparking a Media Revolution Sparking a Media Revolution
Authors of The Death and Life of American Journalism propose the government grant subsidies to ensure that democracy and a thriving press survive.
Feb 5, 2010 / Press Room
The Commercials Are the Super Bowl The Commercials Are the Super Bowl
The thirty-second spots for chips, beer, babes and flatulent slackers star in the big game.
Feb 5, 2010 / Feature / Robert Lipsyte
Let All Super Bowl Ads Advocate Let All Super Bowl Ads Advocate
David Zirin argues for a Super Bowl chock-full of advocacy ads.
Feb 5, 2010 / The Rachel Maddow Show
The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget
What effect will the reduction in troops in Iraq that Obama has promised have on defense spending?
Feb 5, 2010 / Chris Hayes
Question Time in Our Democracy Question Time in Our Democracy
"We live in a world that increasingly demands more dialogue than monologue." Those are words from the founding manifesto issued earlier this week by a diverse group of bl...
Feb 5, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Meet Tea Partisan Tom Tancredo Meet Tea Partisan Tom Tancredo
How politically credible are the leading figures in the Tea Party movement that is rallying this weekend at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville? Let them Tea Party proclaimers ...
Feb 5, 2010 / John Nichols