Slacker Monday Slacker Monday
Wrap-up: I've got a new Think Again column called "The end ofLocal reporting," here. For the Daily Beast this week, I did a piece on "Cheney's ShadowGovernment" here and "Sonia...
Jul 20, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Eric Cantor’s Cant Eric Cantor’s Cant
Eric Cantor may be a GOP rising star, but he sure is a hypocrite.
Jul 19, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Federal Judge Weakens Oversight of LAPD Federal Judge Weakens Oversight of LAPD
Newly implemented reforms don't do enough to reverse a massive increase in the frisking of minority youths in the Los Angeles community.
Jul 19, 2009 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Honoring Natalia Estemirova Honoring Natalia Estemirova
A tribute to a top human rights activist murdered in the troubled Russian republic of Chechnya.
Jul 18, 2009 / Human Rights Watch
Everybody Knows Walter Cronkite Everybody Knows Walter Cronkite
The late, legendary broadcaster shares his prescient impressions of the state of national media in America.
Jul 18, 2009 / The Nation
Walter Cronkite: Definitional Journalist Saw Big Media’s Flaws Walter Cronkite: Definitional Journalist Saw Big Media’s Flaws
Walter Cronkite was the the most serious of serious journalists. The former CBS anchorman cared not just about the next story but about the future of reporting in a country where...
Jul 17, 2009 / John Nichols
Sotomayor and the Politics of Public Humiliation Sotomayor and the Politics of Public Humiliation
One of the most enduring images of the Civil Rights Movement is of Elizabeth Eckford. She is being harassed and taunted by a group of white students, parents, and police on her w...
Jul 17, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Free Gaza–and Palestine Free Gaza–and Palestine
Last month the Israeli Navy seized a boat attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to blockaded Gaza and arrested its passengers, and received little international criticism.
Jul 17, 2009 / Feature / Huwaida Arraf
Goldman Wins, Workers Lose Goldman Wins, Workers Lose
The conventional wisdom holds that Barack Obama's first term will be judged by whether he can revive the economy, which currently boasts an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent, a figu...
Jul 17, 2009 / Eyal Press
Bruno: Offensive, Funny or Just Shocking? Bruno: Offensive, Funny or Just Shocking?
The Nation's Richard Kim and others discuss the admittedly provocative antics of Sacha Baron Cohen's latest creation.
Jul 17, 2009 / Books & the Arts / GRITtv