A role for the press here | Cut tax expenditures to stimulate the economy
COMMENTARY
Cutting the special subsidies in the tax code would go far toward eliminating the deficit and stimulating the economy. It’s a way of letting the market work without government interference. Sounds like Republicans might favor it, right?

| U.S. reverses decision, grants visa to Colombian Nieman Fellow
COMMENTARY
Nieman curator Giles cites efforts of various groups in persuading the State Department to set aside attempts at discrediting Hollman Morris, an independent TV journalist.

George Wilson’s column | No surveys needed to repeal ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’
COMMENTARY
Harry Truman needed guts, not just opinion polls, to integrate the armed forces. That’s what’s needed now, writes George Wilson.

Are the CIA torture tapes next? | New questions raised about prosecutor who cleared Bush officials in U.S. Attorney firings
ASK THIS
Four days before Nora Dannehy was appointed to investigate the Bush administration’s U.S. attorney firing scandal, a team of lawyers she led was found to have illegally suppressed evidence in a major political corruption case. Andrew Kreig writes that this previously unreported fact calls her entire investigation into question as well as that of a similar investigation by her colleague John Durham of DOJ and CIA decision-making involving torture.

Buy his book | The essential, undistractable Engelhardt
COMMENTARY
The editor of TomDispatch.com is out with a new book that offers a lucid unifying theory of what went wrong in post-9/11 America. In short, the country became addicted to war.

What's the mission? | Possibly seeking the impossible
ASK THIS| July 20, 2010
The American effort in Afghanistan is doomed if the Afghans don’t share our goals, and if the Taliban have a sanctuary in Pakistan. Are we prepared to stay there as long as it takes?

| Bob Giles on the U.S. refusal to allow entry to a Nieman Fellow
COMMENTARY
In the 60 years since international journalists have been awarded Nieman fellowships, Hollman Morris of Colombia is the first to be denied entry to the United States by our government. Nieman curator Giles says that if the denial holds, it would an alarming, major recasting of the doctrine of press freedom – opening journalists to charges of terrorist activities because they established contacts with and reported on terrorist organizations.

Feeling any resentment yet? | Will Americans get to like it in the Third World? COMMENTARY The government’s not telling us and the press should be but isn’t: Income inequality in the U.S. is the highest in almost 100 years. We’re about on a level with Mexico but far less equal than Canada. The CIA Factbook puts us just inside the lowest third of all nations, less equal than Ivory Coast, Iran, Nigeria, Guyana, Nicaragua, and Cambodia. Editors: maybe there’s a story here?

George Wilson’s column | Is Petraeus figuring on perpetual war?
COMMENTARY
In his confirmation testimony, General David Petraeus said the U.S. would allow no sanctuaries for al Qaida or other extremist elements, anywhere. Just what does that mean? Does it mean U.S. troops in Yemen, for example?

‘Undeniably useful?’ | On identifying rape suspects by their color
COMMENTARY
Richard Prince, prompted by a Nieman Watchdog blog on a specific case in Des Moines, takes a longer look at a contentious issue.

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