My partner-in-crime, Sarah Jaffe, is on deadly point re: cartoonist Sean Delonas and the now-infamous New York Post race fail: Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post said on MSNBC (at about 3:55 of the video) that the problem might’ve been caught if there was better diversity in the workplace. For...

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...

Last month, PRWeek reported that Washington bureau cutbacks by many mainstream media outlets are resulting in fewer story opportunities, less experienced correspondents, and more work for communications pros. However, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism explained in data...

How to make your cleantech capitalist dreams resonate with the hicks and hawks of Washington, D.C.? In a perfect storm of liberal guilt and heartland pandering, former Secretary of the Navy and CIA director R. James Woolsey has become a domestic-energy sustainability convert. And he's just one of a ...

Hopefully to be charged with war crimes and violations of the Geneva Conventions, here is the full chain of command responsible for Abu Ghraib - thanks to the excellent work by Mother Jones:...

Mother Jones has put together an Imeem Playlist featuring songs used by American troops to... they don't call it "torture", do they? Is the current euphemism 'depleasantise' or something? It's led off by Fuck Your God by Deicide, which shows exactly the sort of subtle message that explains why Ameri...

Yesterday I posted an article on the Guardian Arts Blog directing its readers to a “playlist” assembled by the left-wing magazine Mother Jones. I had hoped to provoke a conversation examining the contents of a very grim chart, uncovered by the investigative journalist Justine Sharrock, ...

In 1998, Mike Huckabee was inspired -- possibly by events close to home to write a book called, Kids Who Kill.  David Corn has a review over at Mother Jones, where you can see just how moderate the Arkansas preacher is when not yucking it up with the national press. Expressing deep concern abou...

In 1998, Mike Huckabee was inspired -- possibly by events close to home to write a book called, Kids Who Kill.  David Corn has a review over at Mother Jones, where you can see just how moderate the Arkansas preacher is when not yucking it up with the national press. Expressing deep concern abou...

Check out this video of Oprah speaking to 29,000 people about Barack Obama. This Mother Jones piece, Obama and Oprah: The Ultimate Power Couple, by Debra Dickerson is also worth reading. There’s a major difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party this election year. When ...