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
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