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| Colombian selected as a Nieman Fellow is denied entry to U.S. COMMENTARY The journalist, Hollman Morris, has given speeches and accepted awards in the U.S. but is ruled permanently ineligible for entry under the 'terrorism activities' section of the Patriot Act. A leading journalism group expreses shock and outrage; Nieman Foundation curator Giles asks the State Department to reconsider. 
| A tough look at McChrystal was long overdue COMMENTARY Michael Hastings's Rolling Stone report has brought new, much-needed, continuing focus on the war in Afghanistan. But the tour-de-force doesn't sit well with some in the mainstream media – and that doesn't sit well with writer Charles Kaiser.
George Wilson’s column | The ‘white feather' problem in Afghanistan COMMENTARY| June 173, 2010 Getting in was easy. Getting out is another question. And in the U.S. Senate, there is a great divide between those who want a lesser American role and those, who like McCain, want “the president to state unequivocally that we will stay in Afghanistan until we succeed.”
Oil spill fallout | Obama isn't kicking BP's ass -- he's buying their gas COMMENTARY Nick Turse writes that even as the tar balls hit Gulf beaches, taxpayer dollars are enriching BP, particularly through the Pentagon. But so far, President Obama has not shown the slightest indication that he plans to do anything about it.
| Multiple rate and tax increases, in the name of broadband COMMENTARY Using old data, the FCC proposes multiple revenue-raisers. Bruce Kushnick sees most of the money, as in the past, going to the big telecoms that have already collected huge amounts and have failed to deliver on their promises. He asks whatever happened to the quaint idea of protecting customers’ rights.
Thank you, Arthur Brooks | AEI president, trying to save America COMMENTARY The free enterprise system is at peril, Arthur Brooks warns in a call to arms published in the Washington Post’s Outlook section. He’s talking about saving us from socialism, and he’s even got carefully-selected poll figures showing that great majorities share his views.
| Correcting an earlier Nieman Watchdog story COMMENTARY Paul Raffaele, a freelance writer, was badly injured in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan while on assignment for Smithsonian magazine in 2008. This story corrects errors that appeared in a Nieman Watchdog posting, April 2, 2010. The errors in the Watchdog story were not present in the original version of the story, published on www.StinkyJournalism.org, December 14, 2009. Nieman Watchdog regrets the errors.
The more things change… | Remembering the Flexner Report as a drug firm pays $520 million for misleading marketing COMMENTARY| May 135, 2010 According to company e-mail unsealed in civil lawsuits, AstraZeneca 'buried' - a manager's term - a 1997 study that showed Seroquel users gained 11 pounds a year, while publicizing a study that claimed users lost weight.
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