Has the Time Come for New York City to Secede?

The PEW Research Center released their annual report on the state of the news media in America on Monday. If, like me, you believe in the importance of good journalism and a vibrant news media it is a depressing read,

Newspapers, including online, saw ad revenue fall 26% during the year,…

It’s been a rough couple weeks for Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol’s right-wing outfit Keep America Safe and its media apologists. The group’s now-infamous “Department of Jihad” ad questioning the loyalties of Justice Department officials who had represented Guantanamo detainees seems to have…

This week saw the publication of a two-part hit piece in Tablet magazine purporting to expose the machinations of the “Iran lobby” in Washington. The author, Lee Smith, is apparently not the great baseball closer, but rather a former reporter for Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard and a current

Toyota is in for a rough week on Capitol Hill.  Hearings on deadly safety problems with a host of Toyota models did not go well yesterday for the president of Toyota’s US sales arm, and they will surely not go well today for Akio Toyoda, the “mysterious scion” (says the AP) of the Toyota…

On Monday, the Electronic Intifada (EI) website published a report on a speech that right-wing Middle East scholar Martin Kramer gave at Israel’s Herzliya security conference earlier this month. In the speech, Kramer called for a cut-off of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)…

As we anticipate the President’s bi-partisan health care summit on Thursday there is scant evidence that Congressional Republicans plan on participating on any meaningful level. Here is Republican Congressman Mike Pence from NBC’s “Meet the Press” this Sunday,

We can’t help but feel like…

On March 23, 1989, scientists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced they had produced “cold” fusion - a cheap, clean inexhaustible energy source that would change the world forever - on a tabletop.  Dan Rather even said so.  I saw him say so on TV and got as excited as a 16 year old…