An Analysis of Sunday Talk Shows An Analysis of Sunday Talk Shows
In my post on Sunday, How The Mainstream Media Is Missing What's Mainstream, I referred to a forthcoming Media Matters report on skewing to the Right on our Sunday talk shows. The ...
Feb 14, 2006 / The Notion / Katrina vanden Heuvel
John Edwards Should Do a Truman John Edwards Should Do a Truman
In her "Editor's Cut" call for the establishment of an independent commission to investigate war profiteering by U.S. corporations -- operating on the ground in Iraq and ...
Feb 14, 2006 / The Notion / John Nichols
Remind You of Something? Remind You of Something?
Few events are as tailor made for Comedy Central's The Daily Show as Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of 78-year-old Harry Whittington, a moment that had Jon Stewart exclaiming &q...
Feb 14, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Hackett Exited Ohio Race After Bad Poll Hackett Exited Ohio Race After Bad Poll
Paul Hackett, who has dropped out of the race for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination with his usual theatrical flourishes, says he quit the contest because of the pressure he cl...
Feb 14, 2006 / The Notion / John Nichols
Staggering Recklessness Staggering Recklessness
In a larger sense, I think Dick Cheney's hunting accident is emblematic of the staggering, reckless incompetence that has been the hallmark of this administration. It is also emble...
Feb 14, 2006 / The Notion / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Fitting Heir to Bush A Fitting Heir to Bush
George Allen, the not-so-bright, tobacco-dipping, football-quoting Senator from Virginia, is quickly emerging as the right wing's potential answer to John McCain come 2008. Allen s...
Feb 13, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Cheney Gets His Gun Cheney Gets His Gun
Sure, it's been fun joking about the fact that Dick Cheney obtained five -- count them, five -- deferments to avoid serving in the military during the Vietnam War. Sure, its been a...
Feb 13, 2006 / The Notion / John Nichols
How The Mainstream Media Is Missing What’s Mainstream How The Mainstream Media Is Missing What’s Mainstream
On Saturday night, Stephen Crockett, Co-host of Democratic Talk Radio, had an interesting blog about a "typical missed news story" and what it reveals about the "lib...
Feb 12, 2006 / The Notion / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Coulter Gone Wild Coulter Gone Wild
To truly understand conservatives, you need to experience them in their element. The largest such gathering of true believers is the annual Conservative Political Action Conference...
Feb 12, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Feingold’s Call for Checks and Balances Feingold’s Call for Checks and Balances
Americans ought be listening to Russ Feingold in these defining days for the Republic, because what the Democratic senator from Wisconsin is saying goes to the heart of the questio...
Feb 12, 2006 / The Notion / John Nichols