Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the author of six books. His most recent, When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences, is available in paperback from Penguin.

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Think Again: Bush Bounces, Reporters Follow

Washington's armchair pundits would do well to look at the facts, rather than trying to jump out ahead on the latest ephemera about the elusive ?Bush bounce.?

Thu Jul. 27, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

Think Again: Watching the Detectives

The blogosphere may contain its share of fiery rhetoric, but it is also an important watchdog.

Thu Jul. 20, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

Changing the Tone

New domestic policy chief Karl Zinsmeister won't help the president fulfill his promise to "change the tone" of partisanship in Washington.

Thu Jun. 15, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

Media Amnesia on Iran

Iran wanted to talk with America in 2003, but the mainstream media can't recall the overtures.

Thu Jun. 8, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

Straight Talk Distress: To Some Mainstream Pundits, Sen. John McCain Can Do Nothing at All and Yet Do Everything Right

It seems to some mainstream pundits that Sen. John McCain, by doing practically nothing at all, is doing everything right.

Fri May. 26, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

A Nation of Suspects

Have reporters been swept up in the NSA's domestic surveillance program?

Fri May. 19, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

Remember the Goss Era?

The Goss story has rightly been all over the news since Friday, but several salient points appear to have slipped through the cracks.

Thu May. 11, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

Signing the Constitution Away

The president's habit of ignoring the laws of which he does not approve is getting out of hand.

Thu May. 4, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

Do As We Say...

Right-wingers ignore the difference between someone who leaks for patriotic ends and those who do it for partisan political gain.

Tue May. 2, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

McCarthyism: Standard Operating Procedure

The essence of the tactic of McCarthyism is to de-legitimize one?s opponent so as to avoid addressing the substance of his argument

Thu Apr. 13, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

Think Again: Deconstructing the Attack on Jill Carroll

Pundits should have put a little more thought into the circumstances Carroll found herself in during those first chaotic and still-terrifying hours

Thu Apr. 6, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

Think Again: Together in Never Never Land

George Bush?s defense of his misguided war in Iraq has long passed into the realm of farce.

Thu Mar. 23, 2006 1:00 AM PST

Think Again: Rigging the Numbers

A new study purporting to show that the media is biased to the left has more than a few serious flaws.

Thu Jan. 12, 2006 1:00 AM PST

Dizzy (Cont'd)
May/June 1996 Issue

Dizzy

The world of political spin is one in which no one can dare take another's words at face value. War can be peace, freedom can be slavery, and ignorance can be strength, if a source close to the White House deems it so.

May/June 1996 Issue

MEANWHILE THE ELEPHANTS ARE STAMPEDING...
July/August 1995 Issue

The Reich Stuff

The Labor Secretary thinks that attacking corporate welfare will revive the Democrats. But so far he hasn't been able to convince his party or president

July/August 1995 Issue

So, Comeback, Kid

The Clinton presidency is in trouble. To regain the public trust and have a shot at winning in 1996, "Slick Willy" must become more like Forrest Gump. He must rediscover his moral center and fight for those who "play by the rules."

November/December 1994 Issue

Fighting Smart

A group of well-funded conservative think tanks and media pundits feed the Republican attack machine. Democrats lag far behind.

July/August 1994 Issue

Military ties

Why is the president letting conservative hawks hold his domestic agenda hostage to Pentagon spending fantasies?

March/April 1994 Issue

Who speaks for me?

Clinton will heed the demands of international business until the Left builds a unified, rational force. Domestic disarmament is a start.

January/February 1994 Issue

MotherJones SO93: Dead meat

Bill wants to be liked. But his new friends--Gergen, Christopher, Bentsen--are having him for lunch.

September/October 1993 Issue

MotherJones JA93: Thumbs Down

The punditocracy has all but declared Clinton a failure, a victim of his wife's liberal friends. As usual, the insider consensus is exactly wrong.

July/August 1993 Issue

MotherJones MJ93: Middle class millennium

Clinton may forge a new political coalition and still lose: interviews with analysts Kevin Phillips and Paul Kennedy.

May/June 1993 Issue

MotherJones MA93: The court rules

Does Clinton have the mettle to shake up the establishment he ran against? Inside the head that wears the crown.

March/April 1993 Issue

MotherJones JF93: The stakes

For Clinton to restore Americans' faith, he will need to define his own political identity in a way that lets him go over the heads of the country's foreign-policy elite

January/February 1993 Issue