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Obama’s 100-day report card
Mark Schone, Vincent Rossmeier, Gabriel Winant
Bloggers, activists, economists and writers grade the president's performance so far. Featuring Sen. Russ Feingold, Dan Savage, Markos, Michael Pollan, Gloria Feldt and many others.
David Broder and media culpability for Bush crimes
Glenn Greenwald
Unanimous opposition among establishment journalists to investigations is unsurprising given their role in what happened.
Meet the Press and the media’s distortions of the prosecutions debate
Glenn Greenwald
It's conventional Beltway wisdom that most Americans oppose investigations, and that wisdom is completely wrong.
An emerging progressive consensus on Obama’s executive power and secrecy abuses
Glenn Greenwald
The harshest denunciations of the Obama DOJ are coming from those who progressives held up as the most reliable and trustworthy authorities.
Comparing the U.S. to Russia and Argentina
Glenn Greenwald
A long-time official with Salomon and the IMF warns that we are replicating the same dynamic that caused collapse in other countries.
Howard Kurtz: government and media need a “cease-fire” now and then
Glenn Greenwald
The "media critic" of The Washington Post and CNN actually believes that the press and politicians are deeply adversarial.
The newly released secret laws of the Bush administration
Glenn Greenwald
Long concealed Justice Department memoranda reveal the true extent of the extremism and radicalism prevailing in the U.S. over the last eight years.
Binyam Mohamed, war crimes investigations, and American exceptionalism
Glenn Greenwald
The only way to argue against investigations and prosecutions of Bush officials is to reject the principles that the U.S., for decades, has imposed on other countries.
The boy who cried media bias
Alex Koppelman
Two recent examples show that both sides of the political debate are sometimes too quick to see a slant that doesn't exist.
Some things just don’t change
Joan Walsh
New president, same old media storylines: Democrats must bow to Republicans, and Hillary Clinton is power mad!
Establishment Washington unifies against prosecutions
Glenn Greenwald
What explains the virtual unanimity among political and media elites that Bush officials should be protected from any accountability for crimes they committed?
Obama’s allegedly “new” centrism and his ABC interview today
Glenn Greenwald
How have people become convinced that the decades-old Beltway platitudes of "centrism," post-partisanship and non-ideological "competence" are now new and transformative?
Reasons to think twice about seating Roland Burris
Joan Walsh
Democrats should be the party of integrity in the wake of crippling corruption scandals for Republicans -- and racial politics can backfire.
Digby: Carolyn Maloney for N.Y.’s Senate seat
Joan Walsh
If David Paterson wants to appoint a strong feminist, why not pick Caroline Kennedy's congresswoman? Plus: Race can't redeem Blagojevich's Senate choice.
Some observations after being involved in a Fox News report
Glenn Greenwald
The Fox tactics of distorting news are extreme, but they are far from uncommon
Lionizing the shoe thrower
Thomas Schaller
Rally held for Iraqi TV reporter who threw a shoe at President Bush.
Gen. Hayden and the claimed irrelevance of presidential appointments
Glenn Greenwald
Since when did people start believing that high-level appointments and Cabinet secretaries were irrelevant?
The CIA and its reporter friends: Anatomy of a backlash
Glenn Greenwald
The coordinated, successful effort to implant false story lines about John Brennan illustrates the power the intelligence community wields over political debates.
How the media talks about torture and the rule of law
Glenn Greenwald
By adopting the Bush administration's Orwellian euphemism, journalists helpfully justify even the most unjustified -- and illegal -- acts.
Who’s afraid of Obama’s overreaching?
Joan Walsh
The president-elect shouldn't squander his mandate reassuring conservatives about his economic plan. The real danger is in underreaching.
Exceptional news: John Brennan won’t be CIA Director or DNI
Glenn Greenwald
Obama's top intelligence adviser removes himself from consideration for a top post, citing the "firestorm in liberal blogs" over his support for Bush's detention and interrogation policies.
Progressive complaints about Obama’s appointments
Glenn Greenwald
The new President's positioning in the center-right of the Democratic Party isn't surprising. It's what he repeatedly made clear he intended to do.
Preliminary facts and thoughts about Eric Holder
Glenn Greenwald
Is Obama's likely nominee for Attorney General an encouraging sign for advocates of the Constitution and the rule of law?
The mind of the Democratic leadership
Glenn Greenwald
Rahm Emanuel told a Democratic congressman that it is "good" when he infuriates his supporters by voting for Bush policies.
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