Occupation: Historian Birth: January 14, 1960
The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation..
Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse th….
I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed thi….
As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ig….
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago..
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse..
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some so….
To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable,….
Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us..
Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigs….
Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their fam….
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of ….
If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak….
Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their co….
Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some fre….
While history never repeats itself, political patterns do..
The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease -- the kind that could be….
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spr….
By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the power….
Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising..
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back ….