If It’s Sunday, It’s Meet The Facts If It’s Sunday, It’s Meet The Facts
Jay Rosen, the NYU journalism professor and new media innovator, has been agitating for some fact-driven reforms to the Sunday political talk shows. This Sunday, he got some tracti...
Jan 11, 2010 / Ari Melber
The Shadow War The Shadow War
The secret war that lies behind the CIA's recent intelligence disaster in Afghanistan.
Jan 11, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
Intellectuals and Pop Culture Intellectuals and Pop Culture
I was honored to be a contributor to Dissent's Winter 2010 issue. The venerable journal's editors asked a group of writers and thinkers, including the Nation's valued columnist Kat...
Jan 11, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Iraq: A New Civil War? Iraq: A New Civil War?
The "good war" in Afghanistan isn't going so well, but the Obama administration may soon learn that the "bad war" -- that would be the one in Iraq -- isn't over...
Jan 11, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
How the Healthcare Bill Will Hurt L.A. How the Healthcare Bill Will Hurt L.A.
Los Angeles County has more uninsured people than anyplace else in the country – three million, many of them immigrants, and many of those undocumented. If the Senate version of...
Jan 11, 2010 / Jon Wiener
The 2010 Political Timebomb Is Unemployment The 2010 Political Timebomb Is Unemployment
American employers eliminated 4.2 million jobs in 2009 and sent unemployment soaring into double digits for the first time in more than a quarter century. Since the fall of last ...
Jan 9, 2010 / John Nichols
Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany? Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?
German prosecutors have launched an investigation into allegations that a Blackwater-led CIA team conducted a clandestine operation in Hamburg after 9/11 aimed at assassinating a G...
Jan 8, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
GOPers Tell Tiger and Barack How to Pass GOPers Tell Tiger and Barack How to Pass
Did you notice what Barack Obama and Tiger Woods have in common lately? No, not that: It's that both were told by a Washington insider this week that he needed to say a magic word ...
Jan 8, 2010 / Leslie Savan
Journalism in 10: Jane Mayer on Protecting Sources Journalism in 10: Jane Mayer on Protecting Sources
The New Yorker's Jane Mayer reflects on the perils of reporting in a post-9/11 world.
Jan 8, 2010 / The Nation Video
Pro-Democracy Victories in Rhode Island Pro-Democracy Victories in Rhode Island
How do we make this a pro-democracy year? It's not looking good so far, with so much attention focused on the drama of the horse race--who's retiring, who's running. Deep change,...
Jan 8, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel