Alexander Cockburn, a famous leftist writer and journalist, died Friday evening in Germany after going through a two year battle with cancer that was largely kept a secret. RELATED: The 'Anatomically ...

With a new film out about Webb, Kill the Messenger, we look back at Cockburn’s testament to the investigative reporter. Jeremy Renner as Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gary Webb in Kill the ...

The main point about journalism is its perishability. That is also the main point about the reputation and sway of its practitioners. They are read or heard, have influence for good or ill, and are ...

It would be hard to exaggerate the dazzle of Alexander Cockburn’s charisma in the eyes of a certain cohort of bohemian and would-be bohemian youth in the non-doorman New York of the nineteen-seventies ...

Nation writers and friends remember the great radical journalist. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

Counterpunch editor and Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn joins us in our firehouse studios to talk about the media and his new book The Politics of Anti-Semitism [Includes transcript] We are joined ...

Alexander Cockburn, a famous leftist writer and journalist, died Friday evening in Germany after going through a two year battle with cancer that was largely kept a secret. John Nichols tells of how ...

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1984: My 14-year-old self, interested in exploring the opinions that don't show up on the news-chat shows, is looking through the magazines stacked by the exit at ...

I’m no writer, but love writers who tell it like it is. Early on, when Montana seemed hopelessly stupid and dark, this Cockburn guy would with a flick of his pen lift spirits and slay the dragons.