Key Women Clinton Supporters: McCain Won’t Get Our Vote Key Women Clinton Supporters: McCain Won’t Get Our Vote
John McCain has made it clear that his campaign intends to aggressively court supporters of Hillary Clinton, include her major base of women voters. Now top women Clinton supporte...
Jun 11, 2008 / Ari Berman
Fox’s “Terrorist Fist Jab” Fox’s “Terrorist Fist Jab”
There's a few different ways to react to Fox News host E.D. Hill labeling Barack and Michelle Obama's fist bump in St. Paul last week as a possible "terrorist fist jab." ...
Jun 10, 2008 / Ari Berman
Was Gloria Steinem Right? Was Gloria Steinem Right?
Want to see my two cents on the question of whether Gloria Steinem was right? This Saturday at the 2008 National Conference on Media Reform, Roberto Lovato and I were asked to comm...
Jun 9, 2008 / Laura Flanders
White Male Pundit Power White Male Pundit Power
It's still all about the white men. Hillary Clinton's loss has renewed critiques that American political media is slanted, sexist and dominated by men. While Clinton and Obama br...
Jun 9, 2008 / Ari Melber
Will the Air Force Garrison Cyberspace? Will the Air Force Garrison Cyberspace?
Be depressed. Be very depressed. You thought that cyberspace -- a term conjured up long ago by that neuromancer, sci-fi author William Gibson--was the last frontier of freedom. ...
Jun 6, 2008 / TomDispatch
McCain Has Never Failed (to Be Wrong) on Iraq McCain Has Never Failed (to Be Wrong) on Iraq
Last fall was a great time for official optimism when it came to Iraq. The military "metrics" looked ever better and, as had happened at crucial moments in 2003, 2004, 2...
May 29, 2008 / TomDispatch
How the Pentagon Engulfed the World How the Pentagon Engulfed the World
Here are words to pin to the Bush years like a wilting corsage: "We don't know what we paid for." That's a quote from Mary Ugone, the Defense Department's deputy inspec...
May 27, 2008 / TomDispatch
Of Juntas, Storms, and Earthquakes-Natural and Man-Made Of Juntas, Storms, and Earthquakes-Natural and Man-Made
The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, with its 225,000 or more deaths in 11 countries, shocked the world; so, in recent weeks, has the devastation wrought by a powerful cyclone (and ti...
May 22, 2008 / TomDispatch
McCain’s Pastor Hagee on Hitler and the Jews McCain’s Pastor Hagee on Hitler and the Jews
John Hagee, the controversial pastor who has endorsed John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that God sent Hitler to help the Jews get to the promised land (Israel, not Auschwi...
May 22, 2008 / Jon Wiener
The Iron Laws of Imprisonment, Bush-style The Iron Laws of Imprisonment, Bush-style
Back in the mid-1990s, in my book, The End of Victory Culture, I wrote the following about the adventure films of my childhood (and those of earlier decades): "For th...
May 21, 2008 / TomDispatch