Eric Alterman

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don’t kick in…

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now…

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin’s ‘Courant,’ it no longer requires a dystopic imagination…

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in…

As a parent and a citizen, I’ll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over…

Politically, Obama’s amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during…

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States…

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for…

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during…

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um…

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality…

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for…

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s…

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact…

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do…