McNulty Packs Up McNulty Packs Up
I saw Paul McNulty, who announced yesterday that he was resigning as Deputy Attorney General, at the Dallas airport on Sunday. He was coming from a prosecutor conference at San Ant...
May 15, 2007 / Ari Berman
Motives Behind Virginia Tech Massacre Found! Lit Profs to Blame Motives Behind Virginia Tech Massacre Found! Lit Profs to Blame
Virginia Tech's commencement exercises took place this week. Columnists across the country weighed in to consider the impact of last month's massacre on the surviving students, to ...
May 14, 2007 / Karen Houppert
For Mothers, the US is Not Number One (Not Even Close) For Mothers, the US is Not Number One (Not Even Close)
Last week your humble correspondent learned, over a dry repast of catered chicken with some of our nation's most influential men, that unlike Canada and many other civilized democr...
May 13, 2007 / Liza Featherstone
Michael Moore Exposes ‘Sicko’ US Cuba Policy Michael Moore Exposes ‘Sicko’ US Cuba Policy
Michael Moore meet Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff. I think you'd both agree that the current US policy toward Cuba is the "dumbest policy on...
May 12, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Oh, Those Skinny Clavicles! Oh, Those Skinny Clavicles!
The New York Times' Style section is always good for a laugh -- nothing lights up my day like a breathlessly earnest piece on the new fanny pack masquerading as serious journalism....
May 11, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry
Hillary, What Have You Done for Me Lately? Hillary, What Have You Done for Me Lately?
My 10-year-old son is triumphant because he thinks he has me in a bind. He knows, from frequent dinnertime conversations, that I'm keen on Obama. And he assumes, because I wear my ...
May 11, 2007 / Karen Houppert
This Is What Democracy Looks Like? This Is What Democracy Looks Like?
Iraqi parliament votes to end the occupation The American public favors withdrawal The cause of Democracy apparently demands we ignore both.
May 10, 2007 / Chris Hayes
Blair Bows Out Blair Bows Out
The process of the handover from Prime Minister Tony Blair toChancellor Gordon Brown has long been scripted. Act I began with the thrashedlocal elections--Labour lost councils all ...
May 10, 2007 / Gary Younge
Will Justice Be Served in NYC? Will Justice Be Served in NYC?
So much City Council legislation -- whether in New York or other cities -- is essentially performance art, even if its intentions are progressive. You know the genre -- banning the...
May 9, 2007 / Liza Featherstone
BBC Bashing BBC Bashing
What's more surprising about Robin Aitken's diatribe Can We Trust the BBC? is that it's taken this long for some disgruntled ex-BBC type to write a apoplectic rant tarring his form...
May 9, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry