Category: Culture
Libby Gets His Comeuppance—But the Press Still Needs a Federal Shield Law
by WS Editors | Dec 1, 2005 | Legal Affairs, MediaOne of the older conventional wisdoms in our nation’s capital is that any president who tries to plug leaks in the ship of state is engaged in a futile, self-defeating exercise. The leaker(s) can never be definitively identified, and any attempt to do so involves tactics more familiar to a police state and likely to […]
Why George W. Bush Is Really Our King
by Ian Williams | Nov 15, 2005 | Books, PoliticsNo one could blame President Bush for wanting to get out of town after the end of October. He’d just experienced what non-partisan political observer Charles Cook dubbed “the worst week of the worst month of the worst year of the Bush presidency.” The president’s approval ratings sagged to an all-time low of less than […]
The Politics (and Profits) of Information: The 9/11 Commission One Year Later
by WS Editors | Nov 1, 2005 | Media, National SecurityThe commission that investigated the events of 9/11 has been highly praised and sharply criticized, but one aspect of its task has virtually escaped notice: its responsibility to leave behind a complete, lasting, and easily accessible public record of its investigation. For all the good work that the panel did, some of its decisions have […]
Cindy and the Media | Talk of Iraq Withdrawal in Congress | It’s Getting Hot in Here
by WS Editors | Sep 1, 2005 | Foreign Policy, MediaWhat Took the Media So Long?—Cindy Sheehan is not a recent phenomenon, even though the mainstream media are treating her as such. She began speaking out after her son Casey’s death on April 4, 2004, forming a small organization, Gold Star Families for Peace, and contributing to the antiwar website LewRockwell.com. In March, The Nation featured Sheehan on […]
A New Book Smearing Senator Clinton Sells Well
by Fredric Alan Maxwell | Aug 1, 2005 | Books, PoliticsIt is called: The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go to Become President. It is by Edward Klein, and has a title almost as slimy as its text. The Klein book, with its ugly rhetoric, insinuations and smears, has dropped from No. 2 to No. 4 on […]
Pico Email Signup
Podcast
Listen to “Paranoia on Parade”, a 3-part audio podcast with commentary from author Dave Troy, Jack Bryan, director of the 2018 film “Active Measures," and Hamilton Fish, Editor of The Washington Spectator.
Editor’s Picks
-
By Lisa Graves
-
Trump’s Criminal Intent — Day Nine
By Jonathan Alter
-
The Right Normalizes Anti-Semitism
By Charlie Sykes
-
“Burn and Rave at Close of Day”: The New MAGA Military and Steve Bannon’s Hundred-Year Reich
By George Black