The Ritual Sacrifice of Samantha Power The Ritual Sacrifice of Samantha Power
A principled academic gets ground up in the media hypocrisy machine.
Mar 20, 2008 / Column / Eric Alterman
Notes on a Scandal Notes on a Scandal
The Spitzer affair's obvious rationality continues to elude the therapists, sexperts and pundits for whom shame is the game.
Mar 17, 2008 / Editorial / JoAnn Wypijewski
Smearing Obama Smearing Obama
False claims about Obama intended to stoke racial and religious fear are trickling from the far right to the mainstream media.
Mar 13, 2008 / Editorial / Ari Berman
Iraq’s Iranian Lovefest Iraq’s Iranian Lovefest
Ahmadinejad's triumphal visit to Baghdad highlights the abject failure of the Bush doctrine. But US media yawned.
Mar 5, 2008 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Other Side of the McCain Lobbyist Scandal The Other Side of the McCain Lobbyist Scandal
A Pittsburgh public television activist explains how McCain broke the rules while doing the bidding of a media mogul.
Mar 4, 2008 / Feature / Jerold M. Starr
McCain and the Media McCain and the Media
It's absurd for the New York Times to cast him as a tool of corporate media, when he's been in the forefront of trying to rein it in.
Feb 27, 2008 / Column / Robert Scheer
When Newspapers Take a Stand When Newspapers Take a Stand
The New York Times editorial page endorses McCain, while its news department works to discredit him. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Feb 25, 2008 / Editorial / Ari Melber
The Fake Prince of Facebook The Fake Prince of Facebook
When a young Moroccan computer engineer created a fake Facebook profile for the Crown Prince of Morocco, the result was jail, torture and a very uncertain future.
Feb 22, 2008 / Feature / Laila Lalami
Fourteen Little Words Fourteen Little Words
First Amendment biographer Anthony Lewis brings glad tidings: despite Bush, US commitment to free speech "is no longer in doubt."
Feb 21, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
Conservative Cannibalism Conservative Cannibalism
Dumb and dumber: reviewing new books by David Frum and Jonah Goldberg.
Feb 21, 2008 / Column / Eric Alterman