RACHEL MADDOW, the MSNBC talking head, has a new book out, "Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power". Kevin Drum of Mother Jones says that if you can get past Ms Maddow's facile cable-news snark, "there's a deadly serious argument here that deserves way more attention than it gets." The gist of her argument is that the erosion of limits on executive power has made war-making too easy and too accountable, and so barriers to war-making ought to be restored.
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has given an extensive interview to the UK's Guardian newspaper, talking about growing up, coming out, and working in cable news. She also says flatly that--for high profile cable news hosts like herself--"if y... Read Post
As the nuclear crisis in Japan continues to unfold, cable news has tried, with varying degrees of success, to explain what’s happening within the imperiled nuclear facilities. From a news consumer’s point of view, MSNBC’s Rachel Mad... Read Post