The L-word: Senator Specter Changes Trains The L-word: Senator Specter Changes Trains
In my new biography of I.F. Stone, legendary investigative journalist and one-time Washington correspondent for this magazine, I occasionally use the term "liberal&quo...
Apr 29, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan
Wild About Harry Wild About Harry
Taking a cue from FDR, Britain launches the New Deal of the Mind.
Apr 15, 2009 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan
Postcard from the Summit Postcard from the Summit
Dear Nationistas, I can't honestly say that covering the G20 from the inside was fun or that I wish you'd all been there, cooped up (if not exactly "kettled") inside the...
Apr 3, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan
A Teachable Moment A Teachable Moment
So there we were, two Americans summoned to 11 Downing Street to advise the movers and shakers of British culture on the lessons to be learned from FDR's New Deal, and particularly...
Mar 24, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan
Time for a New Popular Front? Time for a New Popular Front?
The British press seems to have finally recovered from President Obama's supposed "diss" of Gordon Brown. Instead, today's papers wonder if the Troubles have returned to ...
Mar 11, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan
Britain’s Winter of Discontent Britain’s Winter of Discontent
The global economic crisis hits Britain harder than any other developed country. Is it too big to fail?
Feb 11, 2009 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan
London: A Sense that the Nightmare is Over London: A Sense that the Nightmare is Over
When the votes were finally counted, Europe's wish to usher George W. Bush into the dustbin of history made for widespread jubilation.
Nov 5, 2008 / Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan
Letters Letters
Coming of Age in Papua New Guinea Arlington, Va.
Oct 8, 2008 / D.D. Guttenplan, Mark Dowie, and Our Readers
An Inky, Well-Paneled Place: Comics and the Cold War An Inky, Well-Paneled Place: Comics and the Cold War
Comic books, once the source of cultural panic, have achieved a dominant hold on the public imagination.
Sep 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan
Waiting for Gordon Waiting for Gordon
Britain's incoming prime minister inherits a country transformed almost beyond recognition.
Jun 14, 2007 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan