It’s Not Torture – Mao Agrees It’s Not Torture – Mao Agrees
As noted in my last post, some conservatives have perused the contents of the newly released torture memos and concluded that they do not, in fact, authorize torture. Today's New ...
Apr 22, 2009 / Eyal Press
It’s Not Torture, Really! It’s Not Torture, Really!
The ability to deny reality is hardly unique to conservatives. There are some people on the left, for example, who believe Hugo Chavez is a model democrat, and others who remain c...
Apr 21, 2009 / Eyal Press
Thomas Tamm: An American Hero Thomas Tamm: An American Hero
I had the privilege yesterday of attending an awards ceremony in Washington DC honoring Thomas Tamm, the recipient of this year's Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, which is given ...
Apr 17, 2009 / Eyal Press
Do Detainees Have Rights? Do Detainees Have Rights?
Some weeks ago, Anthony Romero, the Executive Director of the ACLU, showed me his copy of the executive orders that Barack Obama signed in January shutting down Guantanamo and the ...
Apr 14, 2009 / Eyal Press
Debunking Cheney Debunking Cheney
Dick Cheney's insistence that President Obama has made America less safe by defining waterboarding as torture and making CIA interrogators abide by the US Army Field Manual has pro...
Apr 8, 2009 / Eyal Press
Bailout Ballpark Bailout Ballpark
I spent Saturday afternoon at Citi Field, the New York Mets' newly built, 45,000-seat stadium in Flushing, Queens, and can report that it is a lovely place to take in a baseball ga...
Apr 5, 2009 / Eyal Press
Obama’s Democrat Problem Obama’s Democrat Problem
The must-read in this week's news magazines is Jonathan Chait's lacerating piece on Congressional Democrats in The New Republic, in particular the centrists and moderates who are d...
Mar 31, 2009 / Eyal Press
The Populist Storm (II) The Populist Storm (II)
As mentioned in an earlier post, we're hearing a lot these days about dangerous "pitchfork populists" storming the barricades, as though the public's anger at Wall Street...
Mar 25, 2009 / Eyal Press
Obama & Whistleblowers Obama & Whistleblowers
Several weeks ago, I attended a conference in Washington D.C. whose organizing theme was "Ending the Dark Ages, Turning on the Lights." The conference was a gathering of...
Mar 24, 2009 / Eyal Press
Oh No, Populism! Oh No, Populism!
There is a whiff of populism in the air and so, not surprisingly, some liberals are scared. Over at The New Republic, Walter Shapiro has written a piece warning that the real thre...
Mar 19, 2009 / Eyal Press