The Year of the Yellow Notepad The Year of the Yellow Notepad
Call it the year of the yellow notepad. Doris Kearns Goodwin, ejected from Parnassus, Pulitzer jury service and kindred honorable obligations, sinks under charges of plagiarism c...
Mar 21, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
In Cold Type In Cold Type
The new Daedalus is out. I have to admit to having not read Daedalus with much fervor in the past, say, fifteen years (well, if ever, to be honest), but I was curious about the ve...
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
Enron, the Media and the New Economy Enron, the Media and the New Economy
The Houston company was part of the biggest "big idea" of the past decade.
Mar 14, 2002 / Feature / Jeff Madrick
Back Into the Muck Back Into the Muck
Nation pay rates, you may have heard from brother Trillin, are not those of Condé Nast. Every once in a while I don't mind this, because the job just kind of does itself. ...
Mar 7, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
Two Cheers for Our Side Two Cheers for Our Side
One of the pitfalls of publishing a weekly journal of critical opinion at a moment when the political culture has drifted to the right is that there is so much of which to be cri...
Feb 28, 2002 / The Editors
Condolences to Musharraf Condolences to Musharraf
What the Islamic fascists do, and what they believe, and what they intend, are three aspects of the same one-dimensional thing. It is ludicrous to accuse them of being untrue to th...
Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Big Media, Little Media Big Media, Little Media
The nation's largest media corporations are now poised to gain dramatically greater control over what Americans watch, listen to and read. A February 19 decision by the US Court ...
Feb 28, 2002 / The Editors
A Stealth Attack on Freedom of the Press A Stealth Attack on Freedom of the Press
The Federal Communications Commission is presently conducting an inquiry--a "rulemaking"--to determine whether to relax, or even to eliminate, the remaining few regulations that ...
Feb 21, 2002 / Feature / Robert W. McChesney and Mark Crispin Miller