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Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College, an award-winning journalist, and the author of 12 books, most recently We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel (Basic Books, November 2022). Previously, he wrote The Nation’s “Liberal Media” column for 25 years. Follow him on Twitter @eric_alterman
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Altercation: Of Parents, Teachers, and Those Who Exploit Their Anxieties
The history of movements at both ends of the spectrum fomenting rage at conscientious teachers
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Altercation: Networks of Paranoia
The interlocking directorates at the heart of the right’s descent into lunacy
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Altercation: ‘Both Sides’ Journalism Versus the Truth on Climate Change
Why our leading newspapers still entertain dangerous nonsense on their opinion pages
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Altercation: Big Money Is the Ultimate in Cancel Culture
Just ask Yale, where donors upended a celebrated academic program.
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Altercation: What Takes the Place of Local News Ain’t News
Right-wing propaganda that looks like local papers is flooding America’s towns.
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Altercation: The Facebook Threat to Democracy—and Us All
On the hatred, violence, and lies that further enrich Mark Zuckerberg
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Altercation: Authoritarians Amok
Explaining Trumpism, with some help from Chad Goldberg and Herbert Marcuse
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Altercation: Even a Failed War Can Make You Lots of Money
If you’re an enterprising ex-general
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Altercation: On 9/11, Was W. AWOL?
The mysterious case of the president’s dysfunctionality on the day the U.S. was attacked
