Journalist Michael Hastings, 33, died in a car crash on Tuesday. The BuzzFeed writer and Rolling Stone contributing editor fearlessly covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — and American society in general — without pandering to power, while writing in ways that citizens could understand. "When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence," Hastings, who ...

Journalist Michael Hastings, 33, died in a car crash on Tuesday. The Buzzfeed writer and Rolling Stone contributing editor fearlessly covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — and American society in general — without pandering to power, while writing in ways that citizens could understand. "When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence," Hastings, who ...

Alex Jones, radio host and owner of Infowars.com, appeared on the BBC's Sunday Politics show today to talk about the Bilderberg Conference — the secretive gathering of the world's political and financial elite currently taking place in Watford, England. Jones is always an over-the-top guest, as we saw in this interview with Piers Morgan last year, but this time he ...

The Obama administration has taken the first step into a criminal investigation of the leaking of top-secret documents to major newspapers, Fox News reports. After revelations came this week detailing the NSA's tracking of millions of Americans' emails and phone calls, "a source familiar with high-level discussions" told Fox on Saturday that a criminal report had been filed. "We're still in ...

Christine Quinn speaks with Piers Morgan. (Photo: CNN.com) Mayoral front-runner Christine Quinn refused to criticize President Obama over reports that the federal government has engaged in widespread monitoring of Americans' Internet activity and telephone calls--arguing that surveillance is crucial to the city's safety. During an interview last night with CNN's Piers Morgan, Ms. Quinn said that it was still too ...