Russ McBee

Glenn Greenwald has two pieces in Salon on the persistent myth of the ''liberal'' media. In the first, he notes some comments from Scott McClellan's explosive new book that portray the media as willing lapdogs of the Bush administration in its run-up to the Iraq invasion. McClellan says this about the media's complicity during the 2002-2003 White ...

This article in today's NYT draws some interesting parallels between our national response to 9/11 and our collective response to Indian attacks in the 17th century. Although I think the author, Susan Faludi, may be overstating her case a bit, she makes some very good points about the mythos underlying many Americans' sense of themselves. The ...