Nobody knows how to manipulate the media better than David Brock. As a former “right-wing hit man” (his words), he skewered Anita Hill — first in a 22,000-word American Spectator (October 1992) article and then in a best-selling book, The Real Anita Hill, described by Anthony Lewis as “Sleaze With Footnotes.” He even “put a […]
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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Allies Axed
The socialists are in; the conservatives are out. Three days after a terrorist attack in Madrid killed 200 people, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party won the national elections, receiving more votes than the successor chosen by former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. Ivo Daalder, 44, a Brookings Institution senior fellow […]
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Judging Larry
On February 6, President Bush announced the formation of an independent commission that would look at the nation’s intelligence capabilities, “especially our intelligence about weapons of mass destruction,” he said. Then he added, perhaps a tad defensively given the way things have worked out in Iraq, “The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction poses the […]
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Keeping Score
Brian Reich says he had a tough time in Economics 101 at the University of Michigan. There were 550 students in the auditorium, and the professor didn’t really like to explain concepts like supply and demand. He figured the concepts were self-evident. Reich even kept a scorecard on how often his professor dismissed a question. […]
