Eric Alterman
American Prospect
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Eric:
Altercation: Deal-Making Republican ‘Pragmatists’? Like, Who?
The ‘moderates’ who want a debt default: a case study in journalistic destruction of the meaning of words → Read More
Eric Alterman’s List of the Best Stuff of 2022
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Altercation: Getting Real on Crime and Punishment
Republicans and New York’s ‘Democratic’ mayor demagogue on the issue, even as many real Democrats fail even to engage it. → Read More
Altercation: The Journalism Business Is Bad, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
As mainstream publications cut jobs, heavily subsidized right-wing agitprop is filling the gap. → Read More
Altercation: The American—and Jewish—Divide Over Israel
My new book analyzes the 55-year-old rift, now grown to a chasm, in which the right’s remaking of and romance with Israel has detached young U.S. Jews from organized Judaism. → Read More
Altercation: Wenner Fake All (Well, Much)
The newly released memoir from Rolling Stone’s guiding genius isn’t where you’d go for facts, as such, but if there were a Pulitzer for name-dropping, it’d win going away. → Read More
Altercation: Who Are the Real Antisemites?
The actual hatred and the actual threat festers on the right. → Read More
Altercation: At the Movies
Two new films brilliantly depict the increasingly embattled craft of journalism. → Read More
Altercation: The Sunday Shows Enable Republican Extremism
TV bookers apparently can’t stop themselves from giving an uncritical platform to anti-democracy demagogues. → Read More
Altercation: How the Democrats’ Economics Changed
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Altercation: The Billion-Dollar Campaign for Right-Wing Extremist Judges
The man who reshaped the Supreme Court has just been handed $1.6 billion to degrade every other court. → Read More
Altercation: Ron DeSantis Is an Honest-to-God Semi-Fascist
And it’s past time for the mainstream media to say so. → Read More
Altercation: Can CNN Actually Get Worse? Apparently, It Can.
A right-wing billionaire is asserting his right-wing control. → Read More
Altercation: How Peter Baker’s Feelings Become ‘News’
TAP depends on your support We’ve said it before: The greatest threat to democracy from the media isn’t disinformation, it’s the paywall. When you support The American Prospect, you’re supporting fellow readers who aren’t able to give, and countering the class system for information. Please, become a member, or make a one-time donation, today. Thank you! → Read More
Altercation: ‘News’ Without Context
Imagine that the MSM actually noted that democracy was under threat and went so far as to say from whom. → Read More
Altercation: It’s Not Wokeism That Threatens Our Democracy
So how come editors so often boost it into a threat to the cosmic order? → Read More
Altercation: Do We Really Need to Appreciate Coup Expertise?
CNN’s interview with self-proclaimed coup-meister John Bolton, assessing the January 6th insurrection, airily passed over some horrific U.S. misdeeds. → Read More
Altercation: The ‘Dobbs’ Backlash and the Democrats’ Choice
Republicans on the Supreme Court overturned the will of the majority; do liberals have the leadership to fight back? → Read More
Altercation: Will the Oligarchs Who Own the U.S. Media Save Democracy? Don’t Bet on It.
CNN’s move to the ‘center’ is more bad news for news the country can really use. → Read More
Altercation: The Dark Money Funding a Times Columnist’s Magazine
Just who is paying Bret Stephens to edit Sapir? → Read More