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Pacific Standard reports that Americans are surprisingly willing to support the idea of a nuclear war: Nuclear war is unthinkable. At least, that’s what we like to tell ourselves. Given the mass death and devastation from an atomic strike, surely only a desperate despot would even consider such a strike. Slim Pickens joyfully rides a […]

Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America wonders if the criticism inherent in social media like Twitter could have caused the media to rethink its support for the Iraq War: Looking back, I wish Keller and other pro-war columnists had been "bullied" (rhetorically) as they got almost everything wrong about the pending war. I think […]

Pacific Standard reports that Americans are surprisingly willing to support the idea of a nuclear war: Nuclear war is unthinkable. At least, that’s what we like to tell ourselves. Given the mass death and devastation from an atomic strike, surely only a desperate despot would even consider such a strike. Slim Pickens joyfully rides a […]

Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America wonders if the criticism inherent in social media like Twitter could have caused the media to rethink its support for the Iraq War: Looking back, I wish Keller and other pro-war columnists had been "bullied" (rhetorically) as they got almost everything wrong about the pending war. I think […]