You Can Cut the Pressure in ‘Game Change’ with a Butter Knife You Can Cut the Pressure in ‘Game Change’ with a Butter Knife
Since my poker buddy John Heilemann was good enough to drop off a copy of his embargoed book,
Jan 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Feingold Fears “Lawless” Court Ruling on Corporate Campaigning Feingold Fears “Lawless” Court Ruling on Corporate Campaigning
The Supreme Court ruled this morning against restrictions on corporations' spending to influence election outcomes. On January 12, John Nichols filed the post below in anticipatio...
Jan 12, 2010 / John Nichols
Mark McGwire’s Pound of Flesh Mark McGwire’s Pound of Flesh
In the ten years Brian Williams has anchored the NBC Nightly News, he has never once launched a broadcast by lambasting a public figure. Henry Paulson after the economic collapse? ...
Jan 12, 2010 / Dave Zirin
On Reid and Racism On Reid and Racism
Joe Biden once remarked that Barack Obama was "clean" and "articulate." He is now Vice President. During the Democratic primaries Hillary Clinton invoked Rober...
Jan 11, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Blackwater and ‘The Hurt Locker’ Blackwater and ‘The Hurt Locker’
One of the stars of the widely acclaimed Iraq war film The Hurt Locker has claimed that the filmmakers hired the mercenary firm Blackwater. The producer says they were mercenaries,...
Jan 11, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
Breaking News: Harry Reid Sees Black People Breaking News: Harry Reid Sees Black People
Stop the presses! Harry Reid said the word "Negro" and, worse, suggested that white people are less afraid of light-skinned blacks who don't use double negatives. But by ...
Jan 11, 2010 / Kai Wright
Bad Model Ford Bad Model Ford
The news that Harold Ford Jr., a conservative Democrat from Tennessee, is considering a primary challenge to New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is as laughable as ludicrous. I'm s...
Jan 11, 2010 / Ari Berman
Fox’s Newest Star, Sarah Palin, May Be a Bit Dim Fox’s Newest Star, Sarah Palin, May Be a Bit Dim
Here's another notion with regard to Sarah Palin: Maybe it isn't fair to focus on her mean-spirited and ridiculously partisan statements. Maybe it isn't right to harp about her ...
Jan 11, 2010 / John Nichols
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