The War Pundits: Sam Power, McJoan, Danner, Mitchell The War Pundits: Sam Power, McJoan, Danner, Mitchell
The media's coverage and advocacy of the Iraq war remains one of the most vexing problems in our politics. While many now agree that the traditional press overstated the case for ...
Jul 17, 2008 / Ari Melber
No Bail Out – No Bail! No Bail Out – No Bail!
As the Bush administration unveiled a publicly-financed plan to "save" mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, local residents at a town hall forum in Miami were ca...
Jul 15, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Wall Street’s Great Deflation Wall Street’s Great Deflation
Phil Gramm, the senator-banker who until recently advised John McCain's campaign, did get it right about a "nation of whiners," but he misidentified thefaint-hearted. It'...
Jul 14, 2008 / William Greider
Homes, not Hearings Homes, not Hearings
Democrats and Republicans played out a partisan fight Wednesday over who is to blame for housing hurricane victims in toxic trailers. Over one million people were displaced after ...
Jul 10, 2008 / Laura Flanders
The Afghan Pipeline You Don’t Know About The Afghan Pipeline You Don’t Know About
…and speaking of oil, just when we were barely getting used to Big Oil and Iraq hitting the front pages of American newspapers in tandem, here comes Afghanistan! Who now re...
Jul 7, 2008 / TomDispatch
Jesse Helms, American Bigot Jesse Helms, American Bigot
Jesse Helms' death on July 4 was read by many as the last gasp of a no longer breed of conservatism--the explicit defense of Jim Crow, the escalation of homophobic rhetoric to murd...
Jul 6, 2008 / Richard Kim
Dissing Doctors Dissing Doctors
U.S. doctors are wondering if this might be the first year since 2002 that Congress won't intervene to keep Medicare fully funded, since lawmakers failed to pass legislation before...
Jul 1, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Swift Boaters Support McCain Swift Boaters Support McCain
In 2004 Republicans had a strategy: turn John Kerry's biggest strength into an electoral liability. Democrats nominated Kerry largely because of his decorated military service in V...
Jul 1, 2008 / Ari Berman
No to Solar and No to Clean-up No to Solar and No to Clean-up
So much for the Government's much touted commitment to alternative energy. The New York Times reports that the Bush administration has placed a nearly two-year moratorium on the co...
Jul 1, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Smoking Guns and Melting Ice Smoking Guns and Melting Ice
For those who didn't happen to notice, perhaps because it wasn't exactly front-page news in most of the country, NASA's James Hansen, the man who first alerted Congress to the dang...
Jun 27, 2008 / TomDispatch