The Vandals Repeat Did Not Take the Handles The Vandals Repeat Did Not Take the Handles
Wonder why it took ex-Republican Jim Jeffords to alert the national media to the fact that the Bush Administration is run out of the extremist end of the GOP? Writing from inside...
May 31, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Sites for Sore Eyes Sites for Sore Eyes
This magazine has been inundated of late with missives from irate Naderites demanding that the editors immediately exile me to The New Republic, the DLC or worse. My last column ...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Without Fear, Favor or Ombudsman Without Fear, Favor or Ombudsman
The New York Times could benefit from having an in-house arbitrator.
May 3, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Lie to the Media, Get a Job Lie to the Media, Get a Job
Perhaps I underestimate the joy of being given a silly nickname by the Leader of the Free World, but I'm having a hard time understanding why media big feet are so taken by the n...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Commies and the Conservatives Who Love Them Commies and the Conservatives Who Love Them
Remember the term "useful idiots"? Those were the well-meaning leftists who during the cold war couldn't distinguish between the beautiful dream of communism and the mu...
Apr 5, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Tweedledee, Indeed Tweedledee, Indeed
My dictionary defines "myopia" as "a lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning." This would have been a pretty good definition of the accusation...
Mar 22, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
When Ignorance Is Bliss When Ignorance Is Bliss
I have eaten more than my share of Whoppers in my forty-one years. As a teenager I liked them so much I'd worry about whether I could afford another one while still eating the fi...
Mar 8, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Unreality Television Unreality Television
The network honchos called by Louisiana Representative Billy Tauzin and the House Energy and Commerce Committee to testify on the election night debacle were a decidedly un...
Feb 23, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Sorry, Wrong President Sorry, Wrong President
New recounts show that the wrong man is in the Oval Office.
Feb 8, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Which Way W.? Which Way W.?
As the proverbial curtain rises on the Bush era in national politics, it's hard to know just how pessimistic progressives should be about the new President's aims and intentions....
Jan 26, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman