Hold Fast

Andrew Jacobs of the New York Times has a powerful first-person perspective of his experience having his email hacked in China. Jacobs is a reporter for the Times in Beijing and has done some of the most important coverage of the Chinese government, uprisings in Tibet, protests during the Beijing Olympics, and other areas of [...]

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In the middle of a must-read article by Ryan Grim and Arthur Delaney on Huffington Post, Rep. Tom Perriello has what I believe is a fundamentally true quote about the American people and politics: “Part of the problem is that we often take this “What’s The Matter With Kansas?” approach that assumes that people are [...]

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The New York Times has a bizarrely hagiographic piece today on Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey, which owns the Upper Big Branch mine. Blankenship’s mine suffered the largest disaster in American mining in decades, costing over 25 workers their lives. Rescue operations are ongoing, but Blankenship is in full spin mode and the Times [...]

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I feel like I’m in Bizarro World when the Democratic President and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize authorizes the assassination of an American citizen, without trial — something that not even George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and John Yoo had the temerity to do. Glenn Greenwald’s analysis of how outrageous this is is a [...]

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Alleged goat blower Mickey Kaus is apparently, sort of, running for US Senate as a Democrat in California. James Wolcott makes the brilliant point that Kaus’s campaign site looks like something Stephen Glass cooked up during his fictionalization of sources on Jukt Micronics. But beyond the shoddy design, the fact that Kaus thinks he can [...]

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Articles in the Globe and Mail and the New York Times document the work by researchers at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto to expose a new network of global hack attacks originating from China. From the Globe and Mail: The report is careful not to conclude the Chinese government [...]

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Say what you will about the Obama administration’s shortcomings in policy at home (and I’ve said a lot), but his work on reducing the global threat from nuclear weapons is truly admirable. From securing a new arms agreement with Russia to last night’s announcement that the US will not launch a nuclear attack against a country that [...]

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Judge Vaughn Walker yesterday ruled that the Bush administration program of wiretapping Americans without warrant required by FISA was, in fact, illegal. The Obama administration had fought to protect the same powers of the executive branch used by the Bush administration in this program and had attempted to block the case by using arguments on [...]

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