Ed Schultz, Laura Ingraham, Crude Comment, Classy Apology Ed Schultz, Laura Ingraham, Crude Comment, Classy Apology
The MSNBC host has brought the voices of working men and women to the fore and improved the discourse for the better. That's no defense for a "vile and inappropriate...
Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols
NPR Fires Juan Williams Into Its Own Foot NPR Fires Juan Williams Into Its Own Foot
There are better ways to handle eruptions of forbidden speech than sacking the talent.
Oct 25, 2010 / Leslie Savan
Opinions Are Like… Opinions Are Like…
Some more problems with Peretz, NPR's oppressive objectivity and Alter-reviews.
Oct 22, 2010 / Eric Alterman
Why a Major Muslim Group Calls NPR Firing of Juan Williams (& His Hiring By Fox) a Mistake Why a Major Muslim Group Calls NPR Firing of Juan Williams (& His Hiring By Fox) a Mistake
Muslim Public Affairs Council argues that: "NPR's decision to fire Williams was a poor decision with poor timing." It also argues that FOX's hiring of Williams with a 3-y...
Oct 22, 2010 / John Nichols
Commentary: Betsy Reed on Lou Dobbs’s Immigration Contradictions Commentary: Betsy Reed on Lou Dobbs’s Immigration Contradictions
All the attention given to Dobbs's hypocrisy risks obscuring the deeper lesson to learn from this case: that undocumented workers are so thoroughly woven into the fabric of our e...
Oct 19, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
Street & Digital Heat: Why We Need Both to Make Change Street & Digital Heat: Why We Need Both to Make Change
For real political change we need to combine the flexibility of digital organizing with the tangible results of on-the-ground activism.
Oct 18, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Dobbs and Pony Show: Snapshots of America’s Immigration Hypocrisy The Dobbs and Pony Show: Snapshots of America’s Immigration Hypocrisy
On Huffington Post, Isabel Macdonald asks whether the spectacle of Lou Dobbs's undocumented worker hypocrisy will force Obama to face this country's own immigration injustices?
Oct 18, 2010 / Press Room
Nation Conversations: The Future of Film Criticism Nation Conversations: The Future of Film Criticism
The Nation's Stuart Klawans recently joined David Sterrit of the National Society of Film Critics and Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly for a panel discussion moderated by...
Oct 18, 2010 / The Nation
Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like This… Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like This…
American culture from Saul Bellows to Janeane Garofalo to NPR.
Oct 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Publish or Perish Publish or Perish
The military may not be winning the Afghan War, but it is winning the Afghan publishing wars at home, with a striking percentage of books on the war Pentagon-influenced or simply P...
Oct 14, 2010 / Nick Turse