What’s Next for Lou Dobbs? What’s Next for Lou Dobbs?
Dobbs proclaims that the Latin takeover of news is upon us, as he is outraged to reveal that 99 percent of Telemundo programming is in Spanish.
Nov 16, 2009 / Saturday Night Live
Evicted From His Own Head: On Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Evicted From His Own Head: On Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
In the stories of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the landscape of the Russian revolution is hostile territory, and terrifying in its scope.
Nov 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Elaine Blair
Back Talk: Amy Bach Back Talk: Amy Bach
A conversation with the author of Ordinary Injustice about why the right to trial is no protection against a shoddy legal system.
Nov 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
The Misunderstood Robber Baron: On Cornelius Vanderbilt The Misunderstood Robber Baron: On Cornelius Vanderbilt
T.J. Stiles's The First Tycoon is a gilded portrait of the robber baron Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Nov 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser
Senator Joe Lieberman and the Public Option Senator Joe Lieberman and the Public Option
He'll work to make a filibuster stick.
Nov 11, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
SNL Spoofs Fox News’ Election ’09 Coverage SNL Spoofs Fox News’ Election ’09 Coverage
Glenn Beck, Karl Rove and the rest of the Fox News crew declare the Obama presidency over after just ten months in office.
Nov 10, 2009 / Saturday Night Live
Jon Stewart’s Brilliant Glenn Beck Parody Jon Stewart’s Brilliant Glenn Beck Parody
Jon Stweart says there's a war going on in America, and the stakes are nothing less than Glenn Beck's internal organs.
Nov 6, 2009 / The Daily Show
Survivors Survivors
Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun
Nov 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Gladwell for Dummies Gladwell for Dummies
Malcolm Gladwell's success as a brand-name thinker rests on the assumption that the unexamined life is the only sort his readers could be living.
Nov 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Maureen Tkacik
Early Capitalism Early Capitalism
they are perfecting the pillow with which you are being suffocated now it sings to you and shows you pictures--
Nov 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Joe Wenderoth