What’s Really at Stake in the Battle for “Ideological Diversity” at Elite Media Outlets
Kevin Williamson’s hiring and firing by The Atlantic was part of an ongoing, ferocious war between America’s technocrats and conservative billionaires.
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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How John Bolton Wants to Destroy the Constitution to Attack North Korea
John Bolton is using linguistic chicanery to try and, as Abraham Lincoln once put it, "place our President where kings have always stood."
Pundit Ralph Peters Is Leaving Fox News Because It’s Too Gross Even for Him. That’s an Extremely Low Bar.
The summit of Peters’ philosophizing is “Blood Borders,” a 2006 article in which he hid his hate and contempt for the people of the Mideast in plain sight.
"Adversary" Examines Trump’s Mini-Me Carl Paladino — and How to Beat Trumpism
Buffalo real estate developer Paladino is a fun-sized version of Donald Trump. A new film shows how young New Yorkers led a fight to defeat their brand of demagoguery.
Washington Breaks Out the "Just Following Orders" Nazi Defense for CIA Director-Designate Gina Haspel
From former CIA directors to journalists, it's now popular in Washington to say the "Nuremberg defense" is legitimate if used on behalf of Gina Haspel.
Making a Killing
U.K. Rolls Out Red Carpet for Saudi Prince on Anniversary of U.S.-Saudi-U.K. Car Bombing That Killed 83 Civilians
On March 8, 1985, the three countries carried out a brutal, botched assassination of Shia cleric Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.
GOP Senator Says Trump Is Ready to Start War With North Korea, Which Would Be “One of the Worst Catastrophic Events in History”
Sen. Jim Risch, speaking in Germany, claimed Donald Trump is willing to cause “mass casualties the likes of which the planet has never seen.”
For Presidents Day, Here's One Vicious, Ghastly, and/or Fascinating Fact About Every U.S. President
There’s a conscious effort to drain all human interest out of America's incredible, gross, terrifying past. Let's fight back by remembering it.
Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew About Iraq 15 Years Ago and What He Told the U.N.
The evidence is irrefutable: Powell consciously deceived the world in his 2003 presentation making the case for war with Saddam Hussein.
How and Why We Should All Be Like the Late Journalistic Giant Robert Parry
Robert Parry was one of the most talented reporters of the past 50 years — but, as he would modestly say, any curious human being could do what he did.