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Connecting the dots | Linking campaign financing to what's wrong with the health care system COMMENTARY Shifting to public funding of campaigns could be a big first step toward health care coverage for everyone. 
Gas prices | Unregulated energy-market speculation is costing you money COMMENTARY It's much too easy for unscrupulous investors and energy companies to create and profit from huge price spikes – without anyone knowing. Henry Banta thinks the government should limit such temptations.
From Nieman Reports | I.F. Stone's lessons for Internet journalism COMMENTARY Bloggers are taking up where the great rebel journalist left off, but if the news industry is to thrive on the Internet, reporters and editors shouldn't be far behind. Dan Froomkin writes that news organizations would do better online by replacing their bored monotone with a passionate adherence to traditional journalistic values.
Odom's view | 'Supporting the troops' means withdrawing them COMMENTARY Gen. William Odom writes that opponents of the war should focus public attention on the fact that Bush’s obstinate refusal to admit defeat is causing the troops enormous psychological as well as physical harm.
An appreciation | John Moss and the battle for freedom of information, 41 years later COMMENTARY How one modest but stubborn congressman overcame the many entrenched obstacles to win the American people access to information about the activities of their government.
Odom's view | The path out of Iraq starts with Iran COMMENTARY| June 177, 2007 Restoring cooperation between Washington and Tehran is the single most important step that could be taken to rescue the US from its predicament in Iraq, writes Gen. William Odom.
Vietnam revisited | Kissinger gets it wrong again COMMENTARY| June 171, 2007 Henry Kissinger is arguing that the Vietnam War taught us the perils of military withdrawal. But the true lesson of the Vietnam War is that the continuing presence of U.S. troops will only compound the tragedy in Iraq and the region -- and that Kissinger's own partisan criticism of legitimate dissent will aggravate national disunity in the United States.
Crises are great for profits | The method behind endless gasoline price spikes COMMENTARY| June 166, 2007 The oil companies have consciously reduced inventories while demand has been steadily growing. The result, as Peter Ashton puts it, is that whenever a refinery hiccups or a pipeline ruptures, there’s a dramatic spike in gas prices.
No compromise with integrity | What Nelson Poynter can teach the Bancrofts COMMENTARY Shouldn’t the standards of news media ownership, as spelled out by Poynter in 1947, apply today? For starters, those standards include looking at a media property as a sacred trust and a great privilege.
The Korb Report | Cutting Defense spending by $25 billion here, $23 billion there... COMMENTARY| June 160, 2007 It doesn’t matter that there’s a war going on, some of the spending is obviously wasteful. The excesses are well-documented and easy to find, except, perhaps, by reporters and editors who choose not to look for them.
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