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1. Wall Street Journal Issues Epic Correction On Radley Balko’s Error-Riddled Reporting

   Many activists fighting against police abuses have embraced longtime GOP activist and Koch employee Radley Balko ...

2. Radley Balko: Anatomy of a “Stand Your Ground” Shill

   Radley Balko’s current incarnation as a crusading journalist focused on criminal justice abuse is but a recent twist in Balko’s career as a GOP public relations flak.

3. Recovered History: Wall Street-Funded Self Help Propaganda Greased the Real Estate Bubble

   I was passing through the Mojave Desert and by chance stopped by a local thrift store in Joshua Tree. I'm ...

4. Megan McArdle’s Fake Full Disclosures: What the Daily Beast Correspondent Doesn’t Want You To Know About Her Koch Work

   Megan McArdle's fake disclosures are a crisis-management diversion—the shill equivalent of a squid squirting ink or a skunk discharging its stink-glands. She wants readers to wrinkle their nose and turn ...

5. Megan McArdle: Portrait of a Libertarian as a Taxpayer-Subsidized Brat

   McArdle, who blogs for the Atlantic Monthly, presents herself as a principled libertarian, fiercely denouncing any attempt to provide any sort of government-funded health care, because as she argues, big ...

6. Mutual Hack-Scratching: Malcolm Gladwell and Jeffrey Goldberg

   Malcolm Gladwell praises former roommate Jeffrey Goldberg's 2006 book Prisoners, which is about Goldberg's experience as a prison guard at Israel’s largest detention camp for Palestinian political prisoners . . ...

7. S.H.A.M.E. Project – First Month Review

   The S.H.A.M.E. Project had a great first month that’s exceeded our expectations—and we couldn’t have done it without help from eXiled readers like you. Already a major media figure is ...

8. Malcolm Gladwell Contacts S.H.A.M.E., Asks Yasha Levine to Recognize “Delicious Irony” of His Pro-Tobacco Propaganda…

   Last week, I got an email from Malcolm Gladwell. He told me he read the S.H.A.M.E. report I wrote about him a few weeks ago, and asked if I had ...

9. S.H.A.M.E. Profile: Freakonomics Author Steven Levitt is an Anti-Labor, Pro-Prison Neoliberal Extremist

   Levitt is a dyed-in-the-wool Chicago School neoliberal who believes in the sanctity of "the market" and a small government whose function is restricted to protecting property rights.

10. Steven D. Levitt

    Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics, is generally assumed to be a harmless, quirky pop economist. However, Levitt has been a tireless attack dog against teachers' unions and an advocate for ...