Fast-food workers echo ‘Occupy’ spirit
Labor unions have been knocked back, knocked down and knocked out for so long that a new generation of organizers is beginning to try something new. Instead of unionizing and...
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Too much secrecy threatens our security
After I downgraded the scandal value of the National Security Agency's massive gathering of our phone records and email data, a curious reader raised a thoughtful question: Would I "have...
Secrecy scandal? Not so much
When is a scandal not really a scandal? Many are shocked to hear that the government, in its pursuit of terrorists as relentlessly as Wile E. Coyote chases the Road...
Hold Eric Holder to his promises
Attorney General Eric Holder's meeting with journalists and media-rights advocates, including me, began in the way many Washington conversations do, with negotiations as to what was to be "off the...
Hold Eric Holder to his promises
Attorney General Eric Holder's meeting with journalists and media-rights advocates, including me, began in the way many Washington conversations do, with negotiations as to what was to be "off the...
Fight gangs, not each other
It was a knee-jerk reaction to a knee-jerk reaction. That's my assessment of Rep. Bobby Rush's incendiary assault on Sen. Mark Kirk's gang-fighting proposal. Rush, a Chicago Democrat, slammed suburban...
The void of Bachmann
Rep. Michele Bachmann got it backward in her surprising retirement announcement. Many "mainstream liberal media" critics will miss her, especially the fact-checkers. "I fully anticipate," the Minnesota Republican declared in...
A drone war against the press?
Could a president order drone strikes against journalists? I'm not worried. No, really. Not much. But the broad sweep of our government's counterterrorism policy on targeted killings by unmanned drones,...
Right-wing reflex: Blame Obama first
Republicans are not alone in their outrage that the Internal Revenue Service singled out tea party groups for extra scrutiny to their applications for nonprofit tax status. Nobody likes to...
Right-wing reflex: Blame Obama first
Republicans are not alone in their outrage that the Internal Revenue Service singled out tea party groups for extra scrutiny to their applications for nonprofit tax status. Nobody likes to...