AIPAC’s Complaint AIPAC’s Complaint
Analytical weaknesses in a controversial academic paper on the impact of the "Israel lobby" on US Mideast policy hinder its authors' attempt to pierce the wall of ignorance and int...
Apr 13, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Prescient and Patriotic: America’s Honor Roll Prescient and Patriotic: America’s Honor Roll
Here's an honor roll of people who risked their positions and/or prestige to warn the nation of the Iraq War catastrophe.
Mar 30, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Iraq: The Democrats’ Dilemma Iraq: The Democrats’ Dilemma
With Bush's popularity dropping and Iraq in chaos, Democrats must provide clear leadership without making themselves targets of political assassination by the right. How can they d...
Mar 16, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Letters Letters
LIBERALS, LIBERALS EVERYWHERE Washington, DC In his March 6 "Liberal Media" column, titled "The Gasbag Gap," which discusses the Sunday-morning public affairs broa...
Mar 8, 2006 / Eric Alterman, Our Readers, and Max Blumenthal
With God on Our Side? With God on Our Side?
The right-wing hijacking of religion's public role in our political discourse is as undeniable as it is inappropriate, and represents one of liberalism's most serious problems.
Mar 2, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Gasbag Gap The Gasbag Gap
Why expect political balance on talk TV when the networks are wedded to the belief that all the action is on the right?
Feb 16, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Lies About Blowjobs, Bad. Wars? Not So Much. Lies About Blowjobs, Bad. Wars? Not So Much.
Despite his lies and incompetence, Bush remains more popular with elite media than Clinton or any other political leader who sought to save us from the Iraq catastrophe. Why won't ...
Feb 2, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Never Mind the Truth… Never Mind the Truth…
Coverage of the Alito hearings revealed once again that there is no liberal bias in mainstream media.
Jan 19, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
‘Fool Me Once…’ ‘Fool Me Once…’
The willingness of our most powerful media companies to defer to pressure from the White House is deeply disconcerting. In the name of national security, the Bush team repeatedly d...
Jan 5, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Another 9/11? Never Mind… Another 9/11? Never Mind…
The 9/11 Commission's startling follow-up report that savages the Bush Administration's inadequate efforts to protect the country from terrorism was met by the media with a collect...
Dec 15, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman