December 2012 Archive

The Shameful Exploitation of Bradley Manning

By Robert Scheer: Keep an American soldier locked up naked in a cage and driven half mad while deprived of all basic rights, and you will ...

This Week in Poverty: Kristof’s Swing and Miss

By Greg Kaufmann: In a somewhat bizarre op-ed last Sunday, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof acknowledged, “I’m no expert on domestic poverty,” and then seemingly set out to prove ...

The Gatekeepers of American History: The Stoning of Oliver Stone

By Louis Proyect: On November 22nd the New York Times Sunday Magazine showcased a hatchet job by Andrew Goldman on Oliver Stone’s 10-part Showtime series “The Untold ...