America needs a new media, one responsive to the public, not the self-interest of the corporate ownership of the press. Thankfully, "The Daily Show" makes so much money that the corporate masters are too greedy to can it. We desperately need Jon Stewart

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner.

Governor is stonewalling the Troopergate investigation

Anchorage Daily News-There's no polite way to say it: Sarah Palin has been hiding out from hard questions. It took 10 days from when John McCain announced his pick until the McCain campaign agreed to schedule Palin an unscripted interview with a serious

I'd be remiss if I didn't highlight Mark Halperin efforts in this regard. Halperin went on AC360 last night and straight-up bare-knuckled it -- accusing the press of indulging McCain's "crocodile tears," calling the media's unwillingness to hold Palin to

The Obama-Biden slate is historic but for law professors it has a special cachet: It's the first time that professors of constitutional law have occupied both slots. Obama was a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, and Joe Biden has be

When a politician says something, the assumption is that it adheres, however loosely or distantly or illogically, to the truth. This week has shown that assumption to be hopelessly naive.

Palin notified Emmons she would be fired in January 1997 because the mayor didn't feel she had the librarian's "full support." Emmons was reinstated the next day after public outcry, according to newspaper reports at the time. Still, one longtime library

Declaring that it was time to "set politics aside," Senator John McCain said Wednesday that he would temporarily stop campaigning and seek to delay Friday's debate with Senator Barack Obama to return to Washington to help forge an agreement on a proposed

"Unlike many prominent Obama supporters - including Caroline Kennedy and Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill - who said they came to support Obama at the urging of their children, Eisenhower did so by her own grown-up accord. "