Eric alterman

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next...

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their...

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.