Secrets: One Year Later

Sometimes TPV is only the conduit. Today we are republishing a message from Edward Snowden. The message was posted yesterday on the blog of the American Civil Liberties Union,...

The Virtues of Rick Santorum

Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Home Whating? Section correspondent, was going to sleep when he read that Rick Santorum Joins Republican 2016 Presidential Race. Marquel heard that Santorum...

The Joke of the Super PAC. Much Too Subtle for Some

As far back as I can remember, there has never been a better running political joke than the series of “Super Pac” segments performed...

Gitlin’s Fakebook inside the Facebook

What to do about a global info-and-disinfo pipeline, and who can do it? BY TODD GITLIN | NOVEMBER 7, 2017 --First published here: http://billmoyers.com/story/fakebook-inside-facebook/# The Fakebook Inside Facebook Mark Zuckerberg's...

Jewish Outreach; It’s Purim Let’s Care. ObamaCare

As always TPV is only the messenger. Here is another email from the White House to us and from TPV to you. A bit...

Welcome to the Race, ADAM NAGOURNEY

ADAM NAGOURNEY is heavy artillery, and his piece, Similarities Aside, Bernie Sanders Isn't Rerunning Howard Dean's 2004 Race proves the Times has to acknowledge...

Happy Monday, C.I.A.!

Happy Monday, CIA! The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a major surveillance reform measure late last week: By an overwhelming margin, the House passed the 2015 defense appropriation bill which, among...

Gitlin on Trump’s War – A Sport and a Pastime

First published http://www.cjr.org/covering_trump/syria-bombs-tv-news.php WAR IS THE BLOOD SPORT of television. Devastation on the ground—someplace the viewer doesn’t live but where other human beings do, and gasp,...

U.S.-Facilitated Security

Six days ago the Internet was abuzz with news about "our trumpeted success in persuading Pakistan to end its seven-month blockade of supplies for...

The New York Times Approves of the Mayor’s Job Performance

For the last few days, since I glanced at The New York Times headline, “City Voters Approve of Mayor’s Overall Job Performance,” I have...

Children, Let’s All Go with SYRIZA this Christmas!

It’s Christmas time so, if you follow European politics, it’s Greece time. Greece invented the republic as a form of governing communities, and a...

Obama the Galifianakis

Barack Obama has a better sense of humor than Madonna's first husband and TPV has taken notice! Enjoy this episode of Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis and President...

News on the Personification of Corporations – The Harvard Club Is Making Forays into...

By the time we are six we learn that there is no Santa Claus. Then, a year later, the Easter Bunny leaves us too....

If You Feel like Saying No Today, Say It to the Koch Brothers

The great struggle of our time is to prevent the United States from becoming an oligarchic form of society in which the economic and...
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