Journalism in 10: Students on the Future of Media Journalism in 10: Students on the Future of Media
Student journalists at The Nation and Campus Progress's Annual Student Journalism Conference talk how news media will be produced, consumed and funded in the next five to ten years...
Jan 31, 2010 / The Nation Video
Surveillance Can’t Make Us Secure Surveillance Can’t Make Us Secure
The goal of government surveillance is to create a deliberate backdoor into secure systems. The appeal to a hacker is obvious.
Jan 29, 2010 / Feature / Julian Sanchez
The Games Journalists Play The Games Journalists Play
Books like Game Change are more instructive for what they reveal about the community that prizes them than for the information they contain.
Jan 28, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman
Noted. Noted.
Robert Gates admits that Blackwater is in Pakistan; Air America signs off.
Jan 28, 2010 / The Editors
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall, Mark Weiss's The Whole Island and Robert Darnton's The Case for Books.
Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
Air America’s Fall Air America’s Fall
In the wake of Air America's sad demise, the rightwing blogs are predictably crowing.
Jan 22, 2010 / Peter Rothberg
Covering Haiti: When the Media Is the Disaster Covering Haiti: When the Media Is the Disaster
It's time to banish the word "looting" from the media vocabulary in times of disaster.
Jan 21, 2010 / Feature / Rebecca Solnit
The Haiti Haters The Haiti Haters
In this moment of death and destruction, we should not turn away.
Jan 21, 2010 / Amy Wilentz
For Prop 8 Trial, Supreme Court Banishes Cameras For Prop 8 Trial, Supreme Court Banishes Cameras
Had the Supreme Court not kicked video cameras out of the courtroom, the Prop 8 trial may have enabled Americans to see how a controversial court decision is born.
Jan 14, 2010 / Feature / Linda Hirshman
What Would Molly Say? What Would Molly Say?
As we observe the third anniversary of Molly Ivins's death, we are ever more the lesser for her loss.
Jan 14, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman