Congress Ignored Critical Bailout Oversight Congress Ignored Critical Bailout Oversight
Despite the fact that Congress wrote more than one hundred pages about oversight in the bailout bill, they left a gaping hole.
Dec 22, 2008 / American News Project
How Green Was My Valley How Green Was My Valley
This tale of the dissipation of a Welsh coal-mining family at the turn of the twentieth century was intended to be another Gone with the Wind.
Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Anthony Bower
Hail the Conquering Hero Hail the Conquering Hero
Hail Preston Sturges, the king of screwball comedy, whose string of subversive films from 1939 to 1943 rank among Hollywood's funniest ever.
Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / James Agee
It’s a Wonderful Life It’s a Wonderful Life
A town would be in rough shape without its good-hearted banker. That's what many people would call a fantasy.
Dec 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / James Agee
Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola fuses Conrad's Heart of Darkness with the Vietnam war in this sprawling, ambitious film.
Dec 19, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Network Network
Peter Finch asked all Americans to open their windows and shout, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore." Excuse us a second...
Dec 19, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Rick Warren Is Not Change We Can Believe In Rick Warren Is Not Change We Can Believe In
Obama's selection of Rick Warren as an inauguration speaker has infuriated liberals and conservatives. Here's why.
Dec 19, 2008 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Justice in New Orleans Justice in New Orleans
In an 18-month investigation appearing this week on the cover of The Nation (directed and underwritten by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute), reporter A.C. Thompson p...
Dec 19, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Have Bush’s Crimes Destroyed the Presidency? Have Bush’s Crimes Destroyed the Presidency?
Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen discusses the rise in executive power during Bush's tenure and the media's failure after 9/11.
Dec 19, 2008 / American News Project
Maliki’s Secret Crackdown Maliki’s Secret Crackdown
The story of the sweeping, and secretive, arrests, in Iraq's national security apparatus is getting curiouser and curiouser. It now appears as if the whole thing was a clumsy effo...
Dec 19, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss