Liberals believe that they
Liberals believe that they can’t get a fair shake from the media anymore. Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman
Americans get mad as
Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Eric Alterman
Obama, like Carter, is
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans. Eric Alterman
For the past eight
For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game. Eric Alterman
While history never repeats
While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. Eric Alterman
We live in a
We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality. Eric Alterman
The Economist is undoubtedly
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. Eric Alterman
Whether one agrees or
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience. Eric Alterman
Ever since Richard Nixon
Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast — give or take a college town here or a … Read more
Liberals do not appear
Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right’s aura of God-given self-confidence. Eric Alterman