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Double standard
My latest commentary for The Guardian is up. This week I write about conservative outrage over The New Republic’s dubious reporting on American misbehavior in Iraq — and the right’s total silence on...
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A media scandal that wasn’t?
Remember the Scott Beauchamp scandal? Beauchamp was the soldier who wrote a series of essays for The New Republic documenting some pretty atrocious behavior involving him and his comrades who were...
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More on the Scott Beauchamp saga
Last week I linked to Spencer Ackerman’s report for Radar alleging that the real scandal involving ex-“Baghdad Diarist” Scott Beauchamp was that The New Republic had failed to stand behind Beauchamp’s...
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Kerry on fire
I’ve never seen him that impassioned on his own behalf. And if Bill Clinton was more intent on whacking Bush than McCain, Kerry made up for it. He even poked fun at himself as he ran through a litany...
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Ron Paul’s racist ties get another airing
It’s good to see that Ron Paul’s dalliance with racists and anti-Semites is getting another airing. The Weekly Standard is recycling James Kirchick’s splendid New Republic article of four years ago, in...
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TNR’s new owner crosses a line with Obama interview
The New York Times goes deep on The New Republic’s latest reinvention. I wrote a couple of pieces for the venerable magazine many years ago, and I wish it well. But I also wish Times reporter Christine...
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Swartz case leads Media Nation’s top 10 of 2013
Aaron Swartz speaking in 2012 Last January, not long after the young Internet genius Aaron Swartz committed suicide, civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate wrote powerfully about the abusive...
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