MSNBC Drops Keith Olbermann MSNBC Drops Keith Olbermann
The cable network ends its contract with top-rated host—a progressive favorite who helped create a space for dissent on cable during the Bush-Cheney years.
Jan 22, 2011 / John Nichols
Should the Media Go Palin-Free in February? Should the Media Go Palin-Free in February?
Are you reading this because it mentions Sarah Palin?
Jan 22, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Glenn Beck Targets Frances Fox Piven Glenn Beck Targets Frances Fox Piven
In Beck's twisted telling, it is activists like Piven—not the militias of the right—who threaten Americans' safety.
Jan 20, 2011 / The Editors
Comcast/NBC Merger Takes Media Consolidation to the Next Level Comcast/NBC Merger Takes Media Consolidation to the Next Level
It's past time for open hearings and a coherent policy on media ownership in the digital age.
Jan 20, 2011 / Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
Why Roger Ailes Watches Fox News on Mute Why Roger Ailes Watches Fox News on Mute
There is a revealing new profile of the man who led and personifies modern conservatives’ mastery of TV—Fox News’s Roger Ailes.
Jan 19, 2011 / Ari Melber
Rebel Journalist John Ross, the Master of Speaking Truth to Power, Is Dead Rebel Journalist John Ross, the Master of Speaking Truth to Power, Is Dead
American Book Award–winner, chronicler of indigenous struggles and proud radical, Ross wrote his own epitaph: "Life, like reporting, is a kind of death sentence. Pa...
Jan 18, 2011 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols
Alien Visitations Alien Visitations
In my childhood, the aliens were commies. Now, it's certainly Muslims or jihadists or Islamo-fascists.
Jan 18, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt
Extremist Killing is as American as Apple Pie Extremist Killing is as American as Apple Pie
Gunned down in Tucson, shot to death at the Pentagon and blown away at the Holocaust Museum, as well as in Wichita, Knoxville, Pittsburgh, Brockton and Okaloosa County, F...
Jan 18, 2011 / Stephan Salisbury
Glenn Beck’s Campaign Against Frances Fox Piven Glenn Beck’s Campaign Against Frances Fox Piven
In the wake of the tragedy in Arizona, professor and Nation writer Frances Fox Piven joins Democracy Now! to address Glenn Beck's campaign against her and the violent threats ...
Jan 14, 2011 / Democracy Now!