Eric Alterman's well-chosen words on music, movies and politics, with the occasional special guest.
Eric on David Broder, Reed on NPR and undercover journalism and the mail.
Alter-reviews of French movies and some new tunes, Reed explains the secret war on pensions, and the mail.
Reed takes on the right-wing myths behind the Wisconsin union crackdown and readers react to the NFL labor dispute.
Why the NFL's labor dispute should matter to you.
Reviewing two shows in the Lincoln Center's "American Songbook" series, plus the Cowboy Junkies.
Reed reports on the Republicans’ efforts to prove that when it comes to climate change, the deficit and pretty much anything else, they can be both hostile and disrespectful.
Eric reflects on Martin Scorsese and Reed dissects the Groundhog Day mentality of Fox News's climate change "science," plus reader mail.
A response to Robert Dreyfuss, Reed on the facts behind the State of the Union Address and reader mail.
On the late Daniel Bell, the very archetype of a committed liberal intellectual, and The New Republic's Marty Peretz, plus reader mail.
Eric Alterman rounds up the best of New York, confronts Reagan's Alzheimer's and reader mail.