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 two years after he has to win an election. Eric Alterman Read Quote
Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system – like our physical existence – still breaks down along geographical lines. Eric Alterman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn’t be. Eric Alterman Read Quote
Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined. Eric Alterman Read Quote
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore. Eric Alterman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. Eric Alterman Read Quote
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 party, and the presidency itself. Eric Alterman Read Quote
