Barack Obama's campaign promise to use the Internet to "create a transparent and connected democracy" will be put to the test when he launches a new White House Web site on January 20.

On that day, the Bush administration's stodgy, wheezing version of whitehouse.gov will be carted off...

Peter Galbraith's new book, Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies has a chapter on the "surge", in which he calls it the "Potemkin Surge."

This may sound surprising -- if not heretical -- to many people in Washington, Republicans and Democrats alike, who have bought into...

One of the problems with modern political journalism is that when something manifestly absurd takes place, as long as there are people willing to argue both sides, our top reporters feel obliged to treat it as deserving of serious debate.

Case in point: John McCain's selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah...

The Nieman Foundation and its Watchdog Project this year established an I.F. Stone Medal for journalistic independence.

I'm delighted to announce that our first winner is John Walcott, the bureau chief who ran Knight-Ridder's Washington bureau during the run-up to war in Iraq, producing dozens of...

I.F. Stone's 100th birthday comes at what feels like a real low point in terms of the iconoclastic, independent journalism with which Stone is so unmistakably identified.

So it's particularly appropriate that the observations of Stone's birthday aren't just fond looks back at the rebel journalist's storied career; they...

Bloggers and other citizen journalists have a new and exciting opportunity to find and shed light on stories the mainstream media are missing -- by combing through transcripts of recent Congressional oversight hearings. Without any fanfare, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has started posting preliminary transcripts of many...