Truth is still in short supply in the Afghan war, despite growing doubts in Washington whether it is “winnable.”

Afghanistan needs a free press, not only for the sake of their journalists’ lives, but it’s absolutely fundamental to improving their government, their laws, and their society as whole.

Larry King literally embraced Bush, to the dismay of good journalists.

More important than Gen. McChrystal’s fate is the fate of the whole war policy. We need good journalism to tell us more what is really happening.

News media focused too much on how good a speech Obama gave and not on what he actually said.

Both sides will be spinning, and it will be hard for journalists to get the facts.

In following the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion I’ve been surprised at Obama’s response where he’s just been sitting in the White House and saying BP will take of it while at the same time saying he’s keeping with “Drill, Baby, Drill!” Now that I’ve gone to OpenSecrets it makes much more sense…

As the oil hits the reefs, offshore bars and beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, are we faced with another Exxon Valdez catastrophe? Yes. Can we learn from that disaster in how this ongoing tragedy is documented by artists? Absolutely. Here is some of how we can do it. You may add your suggestions too.

This weekend I have seen two significant acts of journalism, which I would like to thank those actual journalists for committing. So often, we watch in silent indignation – sometimes noisy indignation, too – as figures are interviewed on news shows and tell outright lies, without the interviewer giving any indication that there is anything wrong with those false statements.

Hussein Khalifa needs a hand in friendship and support. Can you help this former McClatchy Baghdad Bureau writer?