Call me a cynic, but I don’t see WikiLeaks changing much — for better or worse —...
Ned Resnikoff
I am a freelance writer, researcher for Media Matters for America, and occasional inactive to Salon. Everything written here is my opinion alone, and not representative of the views of my employer.
Ezra Klein had a great rundown yesterday on a psychological phenomenon called motivated skepticism: On the simplest level,...
Image via Wikipedia Given that I’m very far from an expert on East Asian politcs — and...
Due respect to Andrew Sullivan, but this is overparsing: The other untruth is that I have “advance[d]...
Image via Wikipedia That’s how incoming House homeland security chair Pete King described the Ghailani trial. Ghailani...
Spencer Ackerman on the Obama administration’s legal justification for drone strikes: In March, the State Department’s legal...
Image via Wikipedia Confession: At first I was sort of conflicted about Adam Serwer’s suggestion that the...
Image via Wikipedia Playing off of Mark’s post against the Oklahoma ban on sharia law, it’s important...
Spencer Ackerman’s latest piece for Wired is pretty chilling. Especially this part: White House counterterrorism adviser John...
Since attention, good and bad, is exactly what Gawker was looking for when they started sniffing around...
I’m a little embarrassed to say that despite having studied philosophy in college and still being a...
Yesterday, guestblogger E.C. Gach asked: So the question I leave to you is, are Americans driven to...
As of last week, we all know that Christine O’Donnell doesn’t much care for separation of church...
Cover via Amazon I’m a little hesitant to jump into another discussion about Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows,...
Since I came out of the gate making such a big deal out of the left’s dearth...
Hey all, I’m Ned Resnikoff. Along with Barrett Brown, I’m part of the latest batch of dewy-eyed...