(A Newtown memorial to the 20 children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School: Getty via CNN) Since the Newtown massacre, visions of unfathomable crazy mass killers and armed strangers in the night have colonized the American mind. Proposed laws have been drawn up that would keep potential mass murderers from getting their hands on assault weapons and […]

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From 1995-2005, Rick Piltz held senior positions in the Coordination Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. In the spring of 2005, Piltz resigned in protest of the Bush administration’s political interference with climate change science. His whistleblower documentation of politically motivated White House censorship of climate science intended for the public and Congress […]

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Motiva’s Port Arthur refinery is too immense to comprehend from one vantage point. It sits on 4,600 acres of marshland a mile northeast of the rotted-out central business district of a Gulf Coast town that white families abandoned 40 years ago. Motiva’s heavily guarded five-lane entrance has the look and feel of a military compound […]

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With the publication of this issue, our staff begins an annual winter break. Your next issue of the Spectator will be dated February 1 and will reflect several exciting new features. In our continuing effort to provide in-depth, independent journalism, and stories and a perspective we believe you will find nowhere else, we are expanding to […]

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At a Republican convention press event, Karl Rove inexplicably refocused media attention on the December 2008 fatal plane crash of “Rove’s IT guru” Mike Connell—while he was a witness in a lawsuit involving Rove: Craig Unger: I’m Craig Unger from Vanity Fair. Rove: Yes, of course you are. Unger: And I also have a new […]

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