A civil rights attorney in New York working on issues of police misconduct and wrongful incarceration, Cockburn has been e-mailing updates to friends from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in lower Manhattan since shortly after the protests began. What follows are excerpts from those e-mails. 11/2 I visited Liberty Park (which, I have to be […]

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DID WE JUST WITNESS THE DYING GASP of hate-based Christianity? While Dr. James Dobson might not know it, electoral demographics strongly suggest that we did. On the eve of the election, Dobson circulated a sixteen-page letter signed by “A Christian from 2012.” Dobson’s non-profit Focus on the Family organization took in more than $142 million (in what […]

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Although attention largely focused on the solemn ceremonies, the most remarkable feature of the events marking the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks may have been the 9/11 Commission’s reversion to its repressed partisanship. The precipitating factor was the seal of approval Thomas Kean bestowed on a controversial ABC miniseries that tended […]

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In the short space of five years, Americans have witnessed two major intelligence debacles: first, a sin of omission in 2001 (failure to detect and prevent the 9/11 attacks), followed by a sin of commission in 2002–03 (the estimate that Saddam Hussein had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction). These failures produced four major investigations, two […]

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