A quote from Seymour Hersh, portending interesting stories on the Bush administration, even after inauguration day: “You cannot believe how many people have told me to call them on 20 January … ‘You wanna know about abuses and violations? Call me then.’ So that is what I’ll do, so long as nothing awful happens before […]

And the press could point out that it’s no big deal

What to do when confronted with the “Obama is a Muslim” rumor?

At a rally in North Carolina yesterday, Joe Killian, a reporter for the Greensboro News & Record, got kicked to the ground by an angry McCain-Palin supporter. The assault came after Palin had finished speaking, when Killian was trying to speak with a group of Obama protesters who’d been escorted out. A “large, bearded man […]

There’s been a decent amount of coverage of tiny Iceland over the last couple of weeks, as the country’s banking system and economy have gone to ground. But nothing that I’ve read is as mournful and poetic as this excellent Wall Street Journal piece by Charles Forelle: For the banks, growing was easy. They could […]

As Joe The Plumber enjoys his 15 minutes, would it be too much to ask that some of that time be devoted to fair-minded determinations of how the candidates’ respective tax and health care plans would affect people like Joe? How about to finding out roughly how many Americans are in situations roughly similar to […]

Today New York magazine moderated–egged on?–an instant messaging bout between Rolling Stone‘s Matt Taibbi and The National Review’s Byron York. The concept of making these two men type out their differences is at least as funny as the results, but click through to read Taibbi work himself into a lather on the origins of the […]

Live bloggers dish on the process

On Friday, an Alaska investigative committee released a report into Palin’s attempts to remove her ex-brother in law from the Alaska state trooper force. It clearly stated that her efforts were in violation of state law. Yesterday I wrote about that finding’s amazing absence from the Sunday political shows, and noted that many journalists were […]