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Charles Kaiser’s Full Court Press column has moved to the Web site of the Sidney Hillman Foundation. This is a complete archive of the FCP columns that Kaiser wrote for CJR.
05/22/09: Tortured Logic, âDueling Speechesâ Edition – Media overplay, under-analyze yesterdayâs torture arguments
05/13/09: âGood Deeds, and Good Worksâ – In memoriam: Eden Ross Lipson
05/08/09: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on Ifill, Bumiller, Sulzberger, and more
05/07/09: Above the Fold: The Pentagon Capers – The mainstream media are silent on the Pentagonâs repudiation of its own report
04/28/09: Above the Fold: Ross Report Revisited – Kaiser on Stelter, Ross, and the 2007 CIA waterboarding interview
04/23/09: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on Shane, Maddow, Kaplan, and more
04/22/09: Above the Fold: Know-Nothings at the NYT – Times waterboarding story reports, demonstrates ignorance of history
04/21/09: Above the Fold: Waiting in the Lobby – The Obama administration needs to rethink its blanket âno lobbyistsâ policy
04/17/09: Above the Fold: Memos of (Mis)understanding – For the torture memos, too, sunlight is the best disinfectant
04/15/09: Above the Fold: Beltway Journalism, âSwallowed by an Hourglassâ – Itâs long past time to expand the spectrum of Sunday-show punditry
04/10/09: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on Danner, Poniewozik, Rove, Vanity Fair, and more
04/10/09: Above the Fold: Our Financial Follies – Black and Born prove it yet again: we need to regulate the regulators
04/03/09: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on Vanity Fair, Ed Henry, and Colbert
04/03/09: Above the Fold: Colin Powell, American Coward – The general continues to debunk the myth of his own greatness
03/24/09: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on Goldberger, Cohen, Greenwald, Wolff, and more
03/23/09: Above the Fold: The Torture Report – Mark Danner rakes GuantĂĄnamo’s muck
03/13/09: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on Jon Stewart, Nathaniel Frank, David Gates and more
03/10/09: Above the Fold: The Whole Truth About Torture – Is it “unfair” to single out Bush’s torture advisors for prosecution?
03/03/09: Above the Fold: Remembering John Leonard – Literary lions celebrate the legendary critic
03/02/09: Above the Fold: The Best and Worst of Television – Kaiser on Kroft, Markopolos, Santelli, and more
02/27/09: Above the Fold: Barack’s Bold Budget – “The most radical document of its kind since Reaganâs first year in office”
02/19/09: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on Delonas, Hertzberg, Rich, Moyers, and more
02/19/09: Above the Fold: Cruel Intentions? – Savage’s stellar Times piece on Obama’s torture policy
02/10/09: Above the Fold: “The Thrill Is Gone” – Across the Atlantic, Washington’s myopia seems more exaggerated than usual
02/05/09: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on Daschle, Newsweek, Philip Bennett, and more
01/21/09: Above the Fold: This Land Is Our Land – Obamaâs inauguration was a celebration forty years in the making
01/19/09: Above the Fold: More Tortured Logic – Dick Cheney, Susan Crawford, Jim Lehrer, and “moving forward”
01/12/09: Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do? – Kaiser on Newsweek‘s “What Would Cheney Do?” cover
01/06/09: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on Barney Frank, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Benjamin Button, and others
12/23/08: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on Lesley Stahl, Barney Frank, Ruth Marcus, and others
12/19/08: Above the Fold: Times Tongue Tied on Torture – Cheneyâs waterboarding admission gets no play from NYT
12/15/08: Above the Fold: Bailout Buyerâs Remorse – The endless ironies of the Republican opposition to saving Detroit
12/11/08: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on BlagoGate, the NYT, NBC, and others
12/08/08: Above the Fold: Stand by Me – A musical journey ten years in the making
12/05/08: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on Maslin, Stewart, NBC, and others
12/04/08: Above the Fold: Sins of Omission – NYT strategically chops Sen. Feinsteinâs statement on torture
12/03/08: Above the Fold: Slanting the Torture Story – Everything you wonât learn about torture in The New York Times
12/01/08: Above the Fold: Complex Analysis
11/25/08: Winners & Sinners – Kaiser on Michelle Cottle, Hendrik Hertzberg, Jim Sleeper, and others
11/24/08: Above the Fold: Down the Rabbit Hole – John Cassidy, Joe Nocera, and others trace our economic ruination
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