Fighting the Good Fight for Health Care Reform

I sometimes wonder if John Nichols is the only one out there consistently reporting (primarily through The Beat, his blog for The Nation) on health care reform in terms of whether or not any real reform is likely to happen. He may have missed this...

U.S. Military Changes Policy And Provides New Detainee Names to Red Cross

News reports in the United States are quoting unnamed military officials as saying the Pentagon has speeded up its process of notifying the International Committee of the Red Cross of the identities of terrorism suspects held at special military detention...

Taking Off (at Least) One Glove

At the very least President Barack Obama seems to have recognized that the Republican idea of a public debate over health care is little more than the rhetorical equivalent of bare-knuckle fighting. As Philip Elliott put it in his Associated Press account...

Childhood’s End

Thursday, December 18, 2008Childhood’s End One approach to that practice of “serious reading,” which I value so highly, is the parallel reading of sharply contrasting texts. Each text has the ability to disrupt the worldview with...

African Union Condemns Terrorist Attack in Algeria

African Union Commission chairman Jean Ping hascondemned Tuesday’s “terrorist” attack in Algeria where around 43 people were reported to have been killed in a suicide attack the town of Boumerdes.

Associated Press the Debate Continues

I’ve been plying my trade as a blogger for quite a while—okay, well, “quite a while” in blog years, anyway. During that time, I’ve learned that the old guard print journalists and their scrappy web counterparts don’t...

A.P. Biting the Hand That Feeds (Traffic To) Them

Last week, the Associated Press sent the Drudge Retort seven DMCA takedown notices, demanding that the site remove excerpts of AP articles ranging from 33 to 79 words that were linked through to authorized copies of the AP stories.

US Denies Arrest of Al-Masri, Al-Qaeda in Iraq Leader

A day after it was reported by Iraqi military spokesperson, Mohammed al-Askari, that Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri was arrested, the United States says he was not.

The Analogy That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Saturday, April 12, 2008The Analogy that Dare Not Speak its Name In reporting on Barack Obama’s efforts to ward off attacks from his opponents (both Democratic and Republican), Associated Press Writers Jim Kuhnhenn and Charles Babington did a...