As the election and protests in Iran commanded world headlines, The Washington Independent’s national security reporter Spencer Ackerman pursued intelligence on President Obama’s strategy and scored an exclusive interview with Iran’s foremost pro-democracy dissident journalist, Akbar Ganji. It made big news, picked up in influential blogs and being linked to The Huffington Post, Andrew Sullivan’s [...]

As we put this update together, two pieces of breaking news:
Washington Independent’s David Weigel reports that the Executive Director of Tom Tancredo’s Team America PAC, who is organizing opposition to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on the grounds she is “racist,” was arrested in late 2007 in Washington DC for “karate chopping” an African American [...]