Rolling Stone National Affairs

It's been one week since Rolling Stone and CBS independently spotlighted the failure of the Gulf governors to mobilize the National Guard to combat the oil inundating the region's marshes and beaches. (Read: Dereliction of Duty). The spectacular failure of these governors to step up as commanders in chief continues. ...

This ad from VoteVets.com targeting Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina for taking Big Oil's campaign cash sets the standard for not letting a serious crisis go to waste:

Rolling Stone editor Eric Bates discussed our bombshell Stanley McChrystal story with Charlie Rose last night. Watch the full episode above, and check out the rest of our McChrystal coverage here: • The Runaway General: Read the Full Story • McChrystal and Us by Matt Taibbi • Replacing McChrystal: Can ...

A federal judge in Louisiana this morning enjoined the administration's six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling, ruling that it is likely to be found "arbitrary and capricious." The decision is shocking at first blush. How, in the shadow of the ongoing catastrophe in the Gulf, could a judge conclude the administration ...

Be careful how much you read into last night's election results. November is poised to be a national election — a referendum on the Obama presidency and the effectiveness of Democratic rule. What we saw Tuesday night was a collection of local races — each compelling in its own story ...

Last week we learned that BP and the Coast Guard's estimate of the volume of oil leaking into the Gulf ? 5,000 barrels per day ? is a joke. Independent scientific analysis solicited by NPR of the lone video of the gushing pipe on the sea floor put the flow ...

After all of the whispering, here at last is some reporting that Elana Kagan is not gay. I'm frankly baffled that so many on the left were eager to put a discussion of Kagan's sexuality off limits. Either a nominee's biography and identity are germane to judicial outlook or they ...

Based on this Lady Gaga remake, apparently made by American soldiers based in Afghanistan, the Pentagon may need to revise DADT to become, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't 'Telephone.' Awesome.

The Good SEC brings "securities fraud action" against Goldman Sachs for its role in subprime meltdown. The Bad Goldman Sachs execs whinge about the views from their new $2.1 billion headquarters. The Scary Move over vampire squids, hello Tyrannobdella Rex, that is to say, tyrant leech king — a species ...

Mark Fiore is a first rate political cartoonist who's innovative use of Web animation won the self-syndicated lampooner a Pulitzer this week. But while Fiore is the toast of the interwebs, you can't see his work on your iPad. And not only because Steve Jobs broke the Internet with his ...

The Good Gainesville, Florida, elects first gay leader despite "No Homo Mayor" campaign led by local church. The Bad Stock in Massey Energy, firm behind worst mine disaster in quarter century, upgraded to "buy" by S&P, which called the death of 29 miners "immaterial." The Scary Arizona passes bill allowing ...

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reveals that we need to include Big Star's legendary frontman Alex Chilton at the too-young age of 59 among the 45,000 Americans who die each year because they're uninsured: At least twice in the week before his fatal heart attack, Chilton experienced shortness of breath and ...

News of the nation?s worst coal-mining disaster in a quarter century ? a methane explosion that killed at least 25 miners in West Virginia ? has been accompanied by revelations that the mine in question, belonging to a subsidiary of Massey Energy, has an egregious safety record. 57 times in ...

Given the deficit hawkery of many of his closest advisers, this is encouraging: "Now, if we can't grow our economy, then it is going to be that much harder for us to reduce the deficit. The single most important thing we could do right now for deficit reduction is to ...

In Rolling Stone's new issue, Jose Antonio Vargas speaks to Al Gore about the 2000 election, his new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and how digital democracy can save the planet. Read the full story here: ? Citizen Gore

A new Senate report reveals that Osama bin Laden could have been captured at Tora Bora in 2001 had the U.S. only pursued him with all available force: "The failure to finish the job represents a lost opportunity that forever altered the course of the conflict in Afghanistan and the ...

Listen: I understand that the atomization of our popular culture drives a need for "national conversation" news stories. But Tiger Woods and the Afghanistan escalation received equal minutes on NPR this morning. The Tiger episode epitomizes the Seinfeld ethos that has infected our 24/7 news cycle. We're having endless national ...

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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2009 Excerpts of the President's Address to the Nation The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010, the fastest pace possible, so that they can target the insurgency ...