by Walter Brasch In May 2004, the New York Times, while claiming it was aggressive in pursuing stories about the Bush–Cheney Administration, slipped in an apology for acting more as the mouthpiece for politicians than as a watchdog for society. “Coverage was not as rigorous as it should have bee...

On Wednesday night's "Hardball," Chris Matthews led a not-so-balanced panel of lefties that included Mother Jones's David Corn and Salon's Joan Walsh, in hammering Dick Cheney's concerns, relayed in an interview with Politico, about the Obama administration's softer stance in the war on te...

Leon E. Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff. (Kevin Wolf/Associated Press) When I saw the news yesterday afternoon that Leon Panetta was Barack Obama’s pick to head the CIA, I decided to hold off on posting and go play with my baby instead.  My initial reaction was ...

At the top of Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith teased a segment on the controversy surrounding Barack Obama’s decision to have pastor Rick Warren deliver the invocation at the inauguration: "Barack Obama angers gay rights groups by choosing Rick Warren to give his inaugural invo...

Ever since the 2008 election we've had a running fight between mainstream "analysts" (like Karl Rove) arguing that this is a "center-right" nation and progressives  (like David Corn) worrying that Barack Obama's personnel decisions are meant to validate that. Nonsense. On both counts. America is no...

Of all the appointments Barack Obama is making to his new cabinet none has attracted as much attention as that of Hillary Clinton. The way it has been handled says more about the future of his presidency than any other....

Max Blumenthal's reporting, of late on Sarah Palin, has been invaluable.  As a pundit, he's awful.  He aspires to membership in that route of wolves we Democrats turn into whenever we win an election. Today he led the pack in eating our own young - heavily criticizing Obama's selection of ...

Scratch the surface of all those glittering tributes for Tim Russert and you might find an undercoating of journalistic insecurity....

Posted by Brad Jacobson In the last line of "The Unfeeling President," novelist E.L. Doctorow’s masterful 2004 essay on President Bush, he wrote: "He cannot mourn but is a figure of such moral vacancy as to make us mourn for ourselves." Many Americans would have agreed with Doc...