It’s the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor— the mother of all “attacks on U.S. soil.” One of the results of the attack and subsequent declarations of war was the establishment of internment camps for Japanese Americans. American families were herded from their homes without trial and shipped off to makeshift, extra-legal “towns” [...]

This video has a made-for-educational-purposes feel that might spur you to daydreaming about that cute person with the shiny hair in seventh grade who sat behind your best friend and about the smell of wafting chalk-dust and the sound of patten-leather shoes clapping on a long tiled hallway approaching closer, closer, closer to where you [...]

No worries. This American Republican would-be world-leader is talking about a Christian not an Islamic faith in miracles! Whew. (Thanks PrezVid.)

The true-crime deus-ex-television memoir about America that no politician will bother to read.

Race and intelligence: calling bullshit on that, again.

Surprise: popular magazine writer William Saletan’s thinking on race and IQ published in a widely read essay at Slate turns out to be… bullshit. Thanks Stephen Metcalf for picking apart Saletan’s “crappy research” and doing what needed to be done on this matter—again—by stating the obvious. Metcalf demonstrates [...]

American Apparel is still around apparently and in the news again for its softcore ads. In New York, the messages of prominent AA billboards (girls look best in sex positions and dressed in AA’s non-clothes) have been “answered” by graffiti writers. In France, AA’s amateur models are baring their breasts for the ads (zut alors!).
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The Obama staff is cleverly chronicling Hillary’s stepped up attacks on their man at a new website. The stripped-down site serves the dual purpose of making Hillary seem mean-spirited as well as hypocritical, ie, underlining her tendency to play (and talent for playing) politician rather than leader, a case Obama has been making about her [...]

A guy walked into a Clinton campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, with what looks like a bomb taped to his chest and demanding to “speak” with Hillary. She’s not in New Hampshire. Track the story for now here. Health-care reform? Campaign financing? The Sopranos spoof? What’s on his mind?

If you were nominated by your major media bosses to cover the presidential campaign, congratulations and, I’m sorry. Although an important beat, it has also got to be exhausting, repetitive and overwhelming. The email alone must be mountainous, amounting to an inbox in every account, personal and professional, stuffed to the brim with messages from [...]

$300 million is a lot for a building. But it just ain’t “architecture” less it’s wrapped in leaking swirly titanium!

I hope someone filmed the productions of Waiting for Godot director Paul Chan put on earlier this month in the open air of New Orleans. Wendell “Bunk” Pierce as Vladimir and J Kyle Manzay as Estragon, holding forth while waiting for that which will never come amid the slumped houses, skeleton trees, post-Katrina emptiness of [...]

Facebook continues its campaign for global media domination, announcing a partnership with ABC News designed to bring the campaign trail to the top of the news feed.
The goal, as the New York Times reported Monday, is to draw Facebook users (read: 18-29 year olds) into political coverage, creating a web of information and opinion for [...]

Coming soon to this spot will be an overview of and excerpts from a major interview and research project P+P and additional staff completed recently on U.S. newsroom diversity and the news agenda. Our staff talked to editors at more than 300 newspapers that failed for whatever reason to complete the American Society of Newspaper [...]

It’s been a good couple of weeks for the Obama candidacy. In addition to gaining a lead in Iowa, Obama also picked up two significant endorsements, at least in my book. The first was from tireless copyright-legal philosopher and genuine information-age freedom lover Larry Lessig, who offered his old friend a thoughtful and unabashed thumbs [...]

Time magazine columnist Joe Klein appears to be the latest Judith Miller— ie, a careerist journalist and damned shoddy reporter who has been manipulated by the “well-placed sources” he depends on for advancement and whom he will protect at all cost. A column he wrote last week has been dissected by Glen Greenwald at Salon [...]