Shawskank Redemption Shawskank Redemption
First she name-dropped "the men and women serving our country in Iraq," and then moved on to God. With that kind of rhetoric, you'd think Ms. Hilton was running for offic...
Jun 12, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry
Where Is the Love? Where Is the Love?
None of us will soon forget that terrible Tuesday in November 2004 when the exit polling said one thing and Ohio said another, when values was the thing, Karl Rove was a genius, an...
Jun 12, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Of Groceries, Abortions, and Nice, Classic Handbags Of Groceries, Abortions, and Nice, Classic Handbags
I was planning to start this blog by writing about The New York Times Sunday Magazine's special issue on income inequality -- Larry Summers (him again!), John Edwards, class co...
Jun 12, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Russian Protests: The Big Guessing Game Russian Protests: The Big Guessing Game
After a surprisingly peaceful weekend of rallies, the first signs of dialogue between the Other Russia movement and the Kremlin are emerging. Will it last?
The Judgment of Paris The Judgment of Paris
Last Friday, as the "The Judgment of Paris" media circus filled our airwaves (those very airwaves which, as FCC Commissioner Michael Copps recently reminded us in an intelligent N...
Jun 12, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Trouble With the Super-Rich The Trouble With the Super-Rich
A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass.
Jun 12, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Foreign Agent Fred Foreign Agent Fred
The mainstream media is starting to pay attention to Fred Thompson's decades-long gig as a well-heeled Washington lobbyist. His client list has been noted in this space and elsewhe...
Jun 12, 2007 / Ari Berman
Save the Internet–Again Save the Internet–Again
Concerned citizens nationwide are rallying to stop the latest phone and cable company assault on Internet freedom as the Federal Communications Commission weighs new rules to prot...
Jun 12, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
What America Owes its ‘Illegals’ What America Owes its ‘Illegals’
The punitive rage directed at illegal immigrants grows out of a larger blindness to the manual labor that makes our lives possible.
Jun 12, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Wall Street, Iraq and the Declining Dollar Wall Street, Iraq and the Declining Dollar
The Iraq War, the declining supply of oil and a flood of US currency are setting the stage for economic disaster.
Jun 12, 2007 / Feature / Ken Miller