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 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Real Men Don’t Hide Behind Scott McClellan Real Men Don’t Hide Behind Scott McClellan
THIS JUST IN: Harry Whittington suffered a minor heart attack on Tuesday morning due to bird shot from Cheney's gun that migrated into his heart. Click
Feb 14, 2006 / David Corn
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 / 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 / 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 / John Nichols
Media’s Aim Misses Real Cheney Misdeeds Media’s Aim Misses Real Cheney Misdeeds
The White House press corps, taking a break from its usual stenography duties, actually roused itself to ask truth-impaired spokesman Scott McClellan some tough questions about Di...
Feb 14, 2006 / 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 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Why We Need an Independent War Profiteering Commission Why We Need an Independent War Profiteering Commission
On Sunday night, 60 Minutes aired an important story exposing Iraqi war profiteering that has stolen billions, crippled reconstruction and put the lives of troops at fatal risk. ...
Feb 14, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Political Science Political Science
NASA climatologist James E. Hansen won't let political pressure from the Bush Administration blunt the urgency of his research on global warming: It's not too late to mitigate th...
Feb 14, 2006 / Feature / Bryan Farrell
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 / Ari Berman