Stories by Nina Burleigh
Nina Burleigh has written for the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and New York magazine.
An interview with Erik Gandini, director of the documentary Videocracy, an account of how Berlusconi's sex-obsessed media empire has shaped the country over the past 30 years.
Posted on Oct 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The president is visiting the Mideast as some kinds of a savior not like somebody who waged a "war on terror" that has killed Arab civilians.
Posted on Jan 15, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
It's time for Republicans to embrace their own gay wing and stop fueling the sickness of suppression that drives men like Larry Craig into airport bathroom stalls.
Posted on Aug 30, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
I cringed as my young son recited the Pledge of Allegiance. But who was I to question his innocent trust in America?
Posted on Apr 24, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Four years of George Bush have meant the triumph of the bully – from abusers in Iraq to intimidators at the polls.
Posted on Nov 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Each of the characters in the black comedy 'Desperate Housewives' is a little mad. No wonder: women who stay home all day are bound to get somewhat loony.
Posted on Oct 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Massive billboard campaigns and helicopter fly-in visits to northeastern Pennsylvania haven't kept George Bush from losing seven points in the Keystone State.
Posted on Oct 11, 2004, Source: AlterNet
An emergency team of former Reagan aides has swooped in during these last months of the re-election campaign to help recast George Bush as the true heir of the Gipper.
Posted on Sep 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The old conservative bulls in the Senate who have run the South for decades are giving way to a new kind of southern politics.
Posted on Sep 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Pulitzer Prize or no, famous reporter reprising heroic Baghdad role finds acting like an honest reporter doesn't play well when right-wing watchdogs are guarding the media's perimeter.
Posted on Mar 31, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The freest press in the world willfully ignores stories about vast migrations of terrified people running for their lives from American bombs and threats.
Posted on Apr 5, 2002, Source: TomPaine.com
Only two articles in the American media since September 11 have tried to describe how Big Oil might benefit from a cleanup of terrorists and other anti-American elements in the Central Asia region.
Posted on Oct 15, 2001, Source: TomPaine.com
An American journalist who was among the first to enter Iraq after the Gulf War looks at our shrinking foreign news coverage and finds it has left Americans unable to comprehend what motivates those who hate us.
Posted on Sep 20, 2001, Source: TomPaine.com
