Stories by Bill Berkowitz
Bill Berkowitz is a freelance writer covering right-wing groups and movements.
BornAliveTruth.org plays loose with the facts in an ad targeting Obama.
Posted on Oct 13, 2008
Thanks to Palin, McCain can now pay for expensive attacks on Obama, giving him the same kind of clout Bush had in battleground states.
Posted on Oct 1, 2008
Citizens United is rolling out 'Hype: The Obama Effect,' an anti-Obama documentary that aims to make waves.
Posted on Aug 15, 2008
The FBI is now investigating the man who declared war on equal protection for gays in federal workplaces.
Posted on May 13, 2008
For the past two years, Congress has designated the first weekend in May as "Ten Commandments Weekend." Wonder why?
Posted on Apr 23, 2008
Funded by wealthy Republican Party donors and former White House officials, the group may be accomplishing less than it claims.
Posted on Apr 4, 2008
With an expected half-billion dollar from a handful of megadonors, George W. Bush's 'truest believers' plan the mother of all presidential libraries and conservative think tanks.
Posted on Jan 13, 2007
Was it Harriet Miers' views on the Constitution or her lack of a male partner that made conservatives so squeamish?
Posted on Oct 27, 2005
$200 billion in taxes isn't enough? USAID launches an online venture to solicit donations from the American public for rebuilding projects in Iraq.
Posted on Sep 22, 2005
Will it continue to be open season on the 'scruffy guy in a baseball cap' as he prepares a new film on America's ailing health care industry?
Posted on Aug 18, 2005
As corporations and privateers gear up for Earth Day, environmental activist Scott Silver aims his gaze at one of the most overlooked developments in the anti-environmental arsenal -- the growing trend of privatization on America's public lands.
Posted on Apr 22, 2005
Why have the morality monitors been silent about the Gannon affair in which a gay prostitute was given special privileges by the Bush White House?
Posted on Feb 28, 2005
By harnessing the investigative power of hundreds of citizen journalists, media activists John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton aim to reinvent journalism.
Posted on Feb 22, 2005
A conservative director wants college students to document "liberal professors" who inject their personal views into classrooms. Is this intimidation of free speech or just a publicity stunt?
Posted on Feb 9, 2005
A voter registration outfit largely funded by the Republican National Committee is being accused of destroying the registration forms of hundreds of newly registered Democratic voters in Nevada.
Posted on Oct 14, 2004
The pacification of Samarra is not a victory, but just another milestone in Iraq's prolonged tailspin into chaos.
Posted on Oct 7, 2004
Two new anti-immigration initiatives intend to keep California immigrants from getting driver's licenses or health care.
Posted on Sep 29, 2004
The newest exhibit in the DEA's museum is a desperate attempt by the flailing agency to hitch its wagon to the 'war on terrorism.'
Posted on Sep 13, 2004
The nation's largest private prison corporation joins forces with conservative faith-based ministries.
Posted on Sep 2, 2004
Karl Rove is counting on the more than 4 million evangelical Christian voters that didn't turn out in 2000 to put Bush over the top this year. Will a revivified Promise Keepers movement help drive voters to the polls?
Posted on Aug 9, 2004
Katherine Harris, the controversial figure from Florida's Election 2000, either leaked classified information or came up with a huge whopping lie.
Posted on Aug 6, 2004
Moore-bashing is going full-throttle, and one filmmaker seeks to out-Fahrenheit Michael Moore.
Posted on Aug 4, 2004
The Bush administration is keeping U.S. operations in Iraq out of sight and – they hope – out of mind.
Posted on Jul 23, 2004
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay faces several charges before the House ethics committee – what does it mean for DeLay that four of its members have accepted contributions from him?
Posted on Jul 15, 2004
The administration is warning that large-scale terrorist attacks could force postponement of the November elections.
Posted on Jul 12, 2004
The Religious Right is mobilizing a massive lobbying effort for the Federal Marriage Amendment.
Posted on Jul 7, 2004
Right-wing groups are launching a campaign to stop Michael Moore's film from being seen. Though information yearns to be free, will the right manage to yoke Moore's message?
Posted on Jun 17, 2004
The military is doing little to reduce the heightened risk of domestic violence when soldiers return home from Iraq.
Posted on Jun 3, 2004
The right-wing media is outraged at the outrage over the Abu Ghraib photos. They think it's time for Americans to just move on.
Posted on May 12, 2004
Better financed than George W. Bush and more visible than Dick Cheney, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon is making noises about leaving the US but his goal of revamping the UN remains center-stage.
Posted on May 11, 2004
An Iran/Contra scandalista, Otto Reich has always been anti-communist and anti-democratic. Now he’s joining the Bush re-election campaign.
Posted on May 6, 2004
A high suicide rate and battlefield stress plague the U.S. military in Iraq. Relaxed pre-deployment mental health screenings may be only part of the problem.
Posted on Apr 30, 2004
The Democratic candidate appears to be trying to out-Bush Bush on foreign policy, and his positions have the centrist Democratic Leadership Council's stamp all over them.
Posted on Apr 27, 2004
District court moves to protect a California group from the federal government's war on medical marijuana.
Posted on Apr 23, 2004
Refusing to admit their mistakes, Bush's spokesmen in Iraq attack Arab-based media while failing in their efforts to establish alternatives.
Posted on Apr 16, 2004
Can Team Bush's marketing machine possibly spin the current crisis into an upbeat media moment?
Posted on Apr 9, 2004
The Pakistani military claimed they had a 'high value' Al Qaeda target in their sights, sparking a media frenzy. So what happened?
Posted on Apr 6, 2004
Budget cuts are starving the national parks and spurring on a push towards privatization.
Posted on Apr 2, 2004
The religious right is hoping to convince mainstream and traditionally Democratic Party-oriented African Americans that gays are sullying the history of the civil rights struggle.
Posted on Mar 29, 2004
There are currently thousands of mercenaries serving in Iraq. Their high salaries and shorter terms of employment will inevitably make a serious dent on the military's budget -- and soldiers' morale.
Posted on Mar 24, 2004
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