- May 27, 2016Facebook CEO's kowtowing to right-wing critics is another sign the media lack spine.
- May 25, 2016At his conference in Washington, the longtime activist announced plans for a new group to demand better content from a celebrity-obsessed media, including alternative points of view.
- April 6, 2016How the United States became a prisoner of war and Congress went MIA.
- February 26, 2016The last 15 years demonstrate that no matter the military strength at your command, war no longer translates into power.
- February 5, 2016Two Canadian-born brutes are in the news this week. One's a humble team player, the other is not.
- February 1, 2016In her new book, the New Yorker writer considers the damage the Koch brothers' network has done to our democracy.
- December 23, 2015How oil industry lobbyists played the long game — wearing down an overmatched federal bureaucracy to gain access to a fuel-rich corner of the Alaskan wilderness.
- November 16, 2015At $109 billion, the US reconstruction program in Afghanistan is already, in today's dollars, larger than the Marshall Plan, and still the country is in a shambles.
- July 31, 2015 | Updated December 12, 2015A botched voter purge prevented thousands from voting — and empowered a new generation of voting-rights critics.
- May 20, 2015Jeb and other candidates would have you believe that while the invasion was based on faulty intelligence, it had everyone's support. But that's false: 156 members of Congress opposed war authorization.