During the election, the press was consumed with the "optics" of Hillary Clinton's every move. If she coughed, there was a problem with the optics. If her State department helped a Nobel Peace Prize winner, the optics were problematic. If her foundation helped people, why ...read more

They called it the Saturday Night Massacre. Deep into the earth-shattering Watergate fiasco, and long after end-stage cancer, as then-White House counsel John Dean called it, had already infected the Richard Nixon administration, an event occurred which, today, would've ...read more

People often wonder what happened to the American press after it distinguished itself in the 1970s by exposing the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. How did the U.S. news media lose its way over the past four decades, a question addressed by Robert Parry at a conference on ...read more

By Robert Parry: Over the past four-plus decades, one of the biggest differences between the two major American parties has been how they have approached the practice of politics. Democrats have mostly played nice and Republicans have played rough, which is why the pugnacious ...read more

By Robert Parry: Americans sometimes wonder how the nation’s political process got so unspeakably nasty with vitriol pouring forth especially from right-wing voices like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage, to name just a few. Yet, whenever called on this ugliness, ...read more