All 27 articles by Craig Aaron
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Craig Aaron
"Fixing the media is key to advancing any issue you care about," says Craig Aaron, senior program director for Free Press. "Whatever your first issue may be, the media should probably be your second."
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Comcast: Worst. Company. Ever.
Inspired by March Madness, the folks at the Consumerist blog recently set up brackets to determine America's worst...
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Untangling the Next Telecom Act
If what they say about those who fail to learn from history is true, it's troubling that the 1...
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Country’s Jingoistic Jingles
Country music is the nation's most popular genre--with nearly twice as many stations devoted to it than any...
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In and Out Burglars
Washington didn't invent the revolving door. Theophilus von Kannel of Philadelphia patented the first one in 1888. But the...
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How the Right Has Won
Sometimes schadenfreude just feels so good. There's nothing like watching Tom Delay get nailed for money laundering, or,...
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Standard Issues
When Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes and John Podhoretz set out to start a new magazine, they had plenty...
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Sand, Sun and Spectrum Policy
Summer is no time to talk about spectrum policy. So instead, let's pretend this is a column about...
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The Plot to Elect Kerry
For progressives, the only sensible way to approach Byron York’s new book is by giving it “the...
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Ill Communication
Critics say magazines like this one never print any good news about the Bush administration. Here’s some:...
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A Little More to the Left
A month after the election, I’m still nursing a hangover from downing too much Kerry Kool-Aid. (My...
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I Think He Can, I Think He Can
John Kerry is going to win. Repeat after me: John Kerry is going to win. Normally I’m...
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Cash and Kerry
There’s an old Yiddish proverb that says, with money in your pocket you’re wise and handsome...
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Bedtime for Bobos
The most infuriating thing about David Brooks isn’t his smug tone or the way he dismisses critics...
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Bought and Paid For
Who’s behind the president’s fundraising machine—and what they expect in return
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Every Breath You Take
On June 2, 1919, a bomber blew himself up on Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s doorstep. Neither the attacker...
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Devil’s Advocate
From razor blades in the Halloween candy to shark attacks to teen “super-predators,” the media love a good...
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Take Bush Home, Country Roads
With its pundits and pollsters, bloggers and blowhards, Washington might be the worst place from which to gauge...
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Wall Street Windfall
Democrats are hoping to make one word synonymous with Bush administration policy in Iraq, and judging by the...
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The ITT List
Call Me a Cynic
In his column in yesterday's New York Times Bobo-in-Chief David Brooks dismisses Democratic criticism of the no-bid Iraqi...
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It’s Not Sleazy. It’s HBO.
Lobbyists have finally arrived. Washington—or at least the Roll Call-reading classes that traffic in inside-the-Beltway inside baseball—...
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$200 Million Pyramid Scheme
The language and logic of Wall Street have so infected the political discourse that most campaign coverage is...
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Banana Republicans
Moving to any new city can be disconcerting, but Washington seems farther away from Chicago than just 700 miles....
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Terror In The Territories
Secretary of State Colin Powell started his latest world tour in Morocco, where the king greeted him with...
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Appealing to Reason
When James Weinstein moved to Chicago in 1976, he set out to create a fiercely independent journal that would...
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