Eric Alterman Quotes

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• So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court…
• There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans'…
• One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the…
• Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place…
• Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing…
• History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.
• Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of…
• Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence…
• Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog…
• Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable…
• It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's…
• 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, is…
• The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his…
• This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who…

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