Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed,… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
