Dirty Wars, the film, opens in select theaters around the country this weekend. The producers—hostage to the same merciless economics that confront commercial releases—have gone to extra lengths to entice audiences to the theaters during the first weekend. In New York, the co-writer and star of the film—Jeremy Scahill (pictured left), on whose New York […]

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Maybe, just like in the late 1970s, we are at a crossroads in economic history, and it’s time not only to argue about policies and programs, but also to revisit the assumptions underlying our current economic regime. In the 1970s, the mainstream story goes, the economy was broken. The Keynesian paradigm that had shaped economic […]

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Alex Jones used to operate under the radar of mainstream media, which studiously ignored him and his theories about 9/11 Truth, Chemtrails, FEMA concentration camps, and deadly vaccines that have been staples of his websites InfoWars and PrisonPlanet. Thanks to Matt Drudge, who helped to mainstream Jones’ ideas (about Obama’s forged birth certificate, Andrew Breitbart’s […]

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(There’s a lot to be said for what “Scandal” has done by merely existing, says critic Gene Seymour). When, about a year ago, the first season of “Scandal” sped to a roaring-and-tumbling climax, I had decided that my own tagline for this ABC nighttime political-intrigue soap was “The West Wing: The Anime Version.” What I […]

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(Last week, Jason Richwine resigned from the Heritage Foundation after, among other things, it was revealed he wrote for a white supremacy publication called AlternativeRight, edited by Richard Spencer, above. Arthur Goldwag reported from a 2011 conference in which Spencer’s National Policies Institute released a report entitled “The Majority Strategy: Why the GOP Must Win White […]

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