Brady Kiesling's Tale

December 7, 2006

A disenchanted diplomat who lost faith in the Bush-era State Department and resigned over the war in Iraq remains idealistic.

Chilling the Press

June 28, 2006

Did the New York Times violate the Espionage Act by publishing reports of government secret spying program? A controversial essay in Commentary has provided intellectual ammunition to chill, censor and punish the press.

Taken for Granted: Ford Replies

May 31, 2006

Target Ford

May 18, 2006

When the Ford Foundation came under pressure, it revised its grant-making standards, restricting the political activities of its grantees.

NYU--No More Ivory Tower

January 26, 2006

Bitter Winter at NYU

December 20, 2005

Striking graduate teaching assistants and NYU administrators are hunkered down for a protracted fight, as President John Sexton has threatened strikers with loss of their teaching stipend and ability to teach. This could have a chilling effect on campus union organizing nationwide.

Conrad Black's Fall

December 15, 2005

Reading Patrick Fitzgerald's sixty-page indictment of publishing magnate Conrad Black and his associates, one gets the feeling that the next stop for this high-living power-broker will be a prison cell.

Salvador Memories

October 26, 2005

An exhibit at the International Center of Photography showcasing the brutal images of the civil war in El Salvador should remind the Pentagon and the public that the "Salvador Option" currently considered by the military leads directly to the charnel house.

Press Watch

July 28, 2005

The public broadcasting system remains an easy target for Republican deception, demagogy and mischief.

Letters

June 2, 2005

Good, Gray NPR

May 5, 2005

Once a quirky upstart, NPR is now soberly mainstream.

'Playing Fair' at Columbia?

April 28, 2005

The Mideast Comes to Columbia

March 16, 2005

The current battle is the latest in a larger, ideologically driven conflict.

Letter

January 20, 2005

Kissinger's Shadow Over the Council on Foreign Relations

December 6, 2004

A critic of US-Chile policy paid the price.

Dissent at 50

October 14, 2004

The Chastening of the Times

September 23, 2004

Press Watch

August 12, 2004

It's time for William Kristol to say he was wrong about Iraq.

The Maxwell Affair

June 3, 2004

A review of The Pinochet File draws the wrath of Henry Kissinger.

The Rebirth of the NYRB

May 20, 2004

The highbrow literary magazine has re-emerged as a combative political actor.

Press Watch

February 26, 2004

Reports paint a portrait of a timid, credulous press corps that, when confronted by an Administration intent on war, sank to new depths of docility.

Press Watch

February 12, 2004

Why did major news organizations handle the Blade series with tongs, or not at all?

When Is a Coup a Coup?

May 9, 2002

He Has a Dream

March 29, 2001

Al Sharpton's leadership role in the black community is secure; his challenge now is to expand his constituency beyond that base.

David Horowitz's Long March

June 15, 2000