Robert Greenwald has produced and directed some of the most talked-about documentary films in recent years, including Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism and Uncovered: The War on Iraq, which is now opening in theaters across the country. On a recent Friday afternoon, he spoke from his Culver City, California, office about Ambassador Joseph Wilson, […]
Tara McKelvey
Tara McKelvey, a senior editor at the Prospect, is a research fellow at NYU School of Law’s Center on Law and Security and the author of Monstering: Inside America's Policy on Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War.
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Oil For Dummies
The United States uses more oil than any other country. We’re so hung up on the stuff that the 8 million barrels we produce each day aren’t enough. So every day we import another 12 million barrels, says Matthew Yeomans, author of the new book Oil: Anatomy of an Industry, and editor of www.petropulse.com. From […]
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Battle of Little Big Vote
A plastic sign outside a polling place in Andes Central High School on the Yankton Sioux reservation was clear and concise. “Photo ID required,” it read. The only problem, said Charon Asetoyer, executive director of the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center in Lake Andes, South Dakota, was that the sign was illegal. Sitting […]
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Fat Man Speaks Out
Jack W. Germond, 76, has covered politics for half a century for The Baltimore Sun and other publications and is, arguably, the country’s most astute political reporter. These days he works in a Charles Town, West Virginia, home office with, as he says, “a huge triple window facing the Shenandoah River.” In other ways, too, […]
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One to Watch
CORNING, N.Y. — Samara Barend, a 26-year-old congressional candidate in New York state, is barreling along in a Buick Rendezvous on a recent Friday when “an even bigger SUV,” as her campaign spokesman-cum-driver, Don Weigel, put it, nearly sideswipes her car. Barend looks shaken, but it’s not the first time she’s had a mishap on […]
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Onward and Forward
On a blustery march day, Peter Schurman, the executive director of MoveOn.org, stands next to a Win Without War poster at a press conference on Capitol Hill. Schurman is a 34-year-old Yale School of Management graduate with a high forehead, blue eyes, and razor-sharp features who doesn’t like to talk about himself. He’s not a […]
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The Zbig Idea
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national-security adviser and author of eight books, including The Grand Chessboard, has a hawk-like nose and blue eyes. These days, he works out of a K Street office decorated with a chess board, an Oriental rug, and a spiked club traditionally used by Ukrainian war commanders. He spoke recently with a visitor […]
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Good Bill Hunting
Harry Thomason, an Emmy-nominated producer and director, spoke recently about his new movie, The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill Clinton, on a mobile phone while driving along California Highway 1. The film opens in Washington, D.C., on Friday, June 25. What is the main message of your movie? The media […]
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The Angry Prophet
With a white, triangular handkerchief tucked into his breast pocket, former U.S. Senator Gary Hart sips coffee in Washington’s Mayflower Hotel on a recent Thursday morning. He also receives calls on a cell phone that plays a Mozart cantata; points out Clifford May in the lobby (“a mouthpiece for the Republican party — probably here […]
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Brock, Stock, and Barrel
David Brock, author of the best-selling Blinded by the Right and head of the Web site Media Matters.org, has written a new book, The Republican Noise Machine. In a Georgetown house built “circa 1860,” according to a plaque, with a well-stocked liquor bar (three kinds of whiskey), fresh flowers, and a library that includes the […]
