Altercation: The ‘Dobbs’ Backlash and the Democrats’ Choice
Republicans on the Supreme Court overturned the will of the majority; do liberals have the leadership to fight back?
View ArticleAltercation: New York Times Headline Whitewashes Shireen Abu Akleh’s Killing
America’s most influential news source bends over backward to shade the truth about the bullet that killed the beloved Palestinian American journalist.
View ArticleAltercation: Do We Really Need to Appreciate Coup Expertise?
CNN’s interview with self-proclaimed coup-meister John Bolton, assessing the January 6th insurrection, airily passed over some horrific U.S. misdeeds.
View ArticleAltercation: Mainstream Media Figures Detect MSM “Bothsidesism” Bias, Notes...
Which progressive media has been on to for a very long time, but hey—welcome to the club.
View ArticleAltercation: By the Usual Standards of American Politics, Most January 6th...
They countenanced or took part in the kinds of scandalous acts that brought more ‘normal’ presidents down.
View ArticleAltercation: It’s Not Wokeism That Threatens Our Democracy
So how come editors so often boost it into a threat to the cosmic order?
View ArticleAltercation: ‘News’ Without Context
Imagine that the MSM actually noted that democracy was under threat and went so far as to say from whom.
View ArticleAltercation: How Peter Baker’s Feelings Become ‘News’
Or, how our paper of record substitutes reporters’ opinions for historic breakthroughs
View ArticleAltercation: Can CNN Actually Get Worse? Apparently, It Can.
A right-wing billionaire is asserting his right-wing control.
View ArticleAltercation: Ron DeSantis Is an Honest-to-God Semi-Fascist
And it’s past time for the mainstream media to say so.
View ArticleAltercation: President Biden Spoke the Truth About Trump. Corporate Media...
Trump himself continues to spew lies and insults about Democrats every day.
View ArticleAltercation: The Billion-Dollar Campaign for Right-Wing Extremist Judges
The man who reshaped the Supreme Court has just been handed $1.6 billion to degrade every other court.
View ArticleAltercation: How the Democrats’ Economics Changed
Michael Tomasky on how a dissident, if realistic, assessment of the economy became mainstream
View ArticleAltercation: Politico Lambastes Washington’s Insider Culture
Nina Totenberg’s new book is roasted by the unlikeliest publication imaginable.
View ArticleAltercation: Maggie Haberman’s New Book Puts Trump in Context
The surprisingly good ‘Confidence Man’ actually makes sense of Trump’s rise and his ability to twist the media to his will.
View ArticleAltercation: The Sunday Shows Enable Republican Extremism
TV bookers apparently can’t stop themselves from giving an uncritical platform to anti-democracy demagogues.
View ArticleAltercation: At the Movies
Two new films brilliantly depict the increasingly embattled craft of journalism.
View ArticleAltercation: Who Are the Real Antisemites?
The actual hatred and the actual threat festers on the right.
View ArticleAltercation: The Pelosi Attack as a Right-Wing Big Laugh
And the New York Times story notwithstanding, the attack had nothing to do with rising rates of San Francisco homelessness.
View ArticleAltercation: Wenner Fake All (Well, Much)
The newly released memoir from Rolling Stone’s guiding genius isn’t where you’d go for facts, as such, but if there were a Pulitzer for name-dropping, it’d win going away.
View ArticleAltercation: The American—and Jewish—Divide Over Israel
My new book analyzes the 55-year-old rift, now grown to a chasm, in which the right’s remaking of and romance with Israel has detached young U.S. Jews from organized Judaism.
View ArticleAltercation: Here’s What’s Really Behind the News
Some serious scholarship (and some Springsteen and Sinatra)
View ArticleAltercation: Bibi and Donald, Growing Even Worse
Illiberal leaders, by inclination and also in hopes of avoiding the slammer
View ArticleAltercation: The Journalism Business Is Bad, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
As mainstream publications cut jobs, heavily subsidized right-wing agitprop is filling the gap.
View ArticleAltercation: Getting Real on Crime and Punishment
Republicans and New York’s ‘Democratic’ mayor demagogue on the issue, even as many real Democrats fail even to engage it.
View ArticleEric Alterman’s List of the Best Stuff of 2022
The year in movies, books, music, and art
View ArticleAltercation: George Santos a Liar? Small-Time When Compared to His Fellow...
In the party of Trump, deceit is the new common parlance.
View ArticleAltercation: On the Roots of Fascism
Is it belief in an ideology that creates fascists, or is it the permission to become a thug?
View ArticleAltercation: Deal-Making Republican ‘Pragmatists’? Like, Who?
The ‘moderates’ who want a debt default: a case study in journalistic destruction of the meaning of words
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