March 05, 2009
Ron Kaye and I were both interviewed for a piece by T.A. Frank in The New Republic about Tuesday's elections. Frank keenly observes how screwed up our City is when he notes that the election "failed to make the front of The Los Angeles Times." Calitics deftly wraps up why Tuesday's election was... [...
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at 5:00 AM
February 27, 2009
Keep in mind this is supposed to be a "modest," not laughable, proposal by the New Republic: replace Roland Burris in the U.S. Senate with Michelle Obama. And if she is not available, then send Barack Obama's mother-in-law to the Senate. I kid you not. Stand by for yet the latest chapter i...
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P.J. Gladnick
at 8:13 AM
February 07, 2009
When Skeptical Brotha regular Zeitgiest9000 posted yesterday that the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder is reporting that the Obama Administration is vetting Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen for Secretary of Health and Human Services, my head exploded. I damn near stroked out, y’all. A diehard Hillarycra...
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February 05, 2009
It was only a matter of time before the The New Republic stopped being an inevitability in this little feature. Well, the time has come—just one week in! Let’s take a look what worthwhile things are afoot in these storied pages this week, for our new feature, Thursdays Are For Magazines. ...
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Juli Weiner
at 5:34 PM
January 19, 2009
Sexy-yet-crazed stabber Rahm Emanuel says he disappointed his mom by not becoming a dancer. But this behind-the-scenes photo, from the New York Times Magazine photo shoot, shows he's still trying to make his mama proud. When speaking to a crowd at the New Republic's Inauguration party (everyone in t...
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Richard
at 12:25 PM
January 18, 2009
Paul Maliszewski grew interested in the psychology of faking and forgery when he worked as a young journalist for a small business magazine....
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Michael Dirda
at 12:00 AM
December 28, 2008
Marty Peretz goes gung-ho: The government in Jerusalem had made it unmistakably clear that it would no longer tolerate this fire power aimed at innocent civilian life. It had been saying this for months to an increasingly skeptical and apprehensive, not to say, restive public. And to Hamas which did...
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YMedad
at 5:04 AM
December 17, 2008
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned due to his involvement in a prostitution ring, is slowly attempting to edge himself back into the public eye with his new column in Slate. The problem from the POV of The New Republic is that Spitzer is trying to make himself relevant again much t...
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P.J. Gladnick
at 7:21 AM
December 08, 2008
Mark Pinsky, writing for the New Republic, has an idea of what to do with all the journalists currently being laid off by the dying newspapers around the country: put them on the public payroll by hiring them for a resurrected Federal Writers Project. This was the New Deal project which provided fun...
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December 02, 2008
(Note: This post got flooded and wasn’t loading anymore. I changed it up so that instead of one massive page, it’s several smaller pages. Harder to print, easier to load. Once things calm down, I’ll put it back up all complete like. For the time being, please click around on the co...
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