What Happened to Janay Palmer in the Elevator What Happened to Janay Palmer in the Elevator
Absent video, how could Goodell Be expected for certain to tell? So he figured that, not feeling well From the flu, say, this mademoiselle Might have suffered a brief fainting spell, From which slowly but surely she fell. And then her husband dragged her out of the elevator, dumped her on the floor, and walked away.
Sep 17, 2014 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Joan Rivers Gets the Last Laugh Joan Rivers Gets the Last Laugh
Who today would argue publicly that women aren’t funny?
Sep 10, 2014 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The 2001 Bush-Putin Summit The 2001 Bush-Putin Summit
At last, they got up from their talks at the table. Bush called Putin trustworthy, having been able To sense Putin’s soul. So, on this grand occasion, Could one thing he sensed be a taste for invasion?
Sep 10, 2014 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Why Firing David Gregory Won’t Change ‘Meet the Press’ Why Firing David Gregory Won’t Change ‘Meet the Press’
The Sunday classic is chasing ratings off a cliff.
Sep 3, 2014 / Column / Eric Alterman
U.S. May Find Itself Allied With Assad and Iranian Ayatollahs U.S. May Find Itself Allied With Assad and Iranian Ayatollahs
Strange bedfellows, sure, we have had them before When needed to thwart growing danger. But now, with the Middle East falling apart, The bedfellows keep getting stranger.
Sep 3, 2014 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Deep Pockets Deep Pockets
For parts of Iraq where our soldiers have died, The ISIS jihadists are serious contenders. So goes the resistance that Rumsfeld described As nothing but pockets of hopeless dead-enders.
Aug 27, 2014 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Obama Is Responsible for the Protests in Ferguson—but Not in the Way You Think Obama Is Responsible for the Protests in Ferguson—but Not in the Way You Think
Despite his best efforts to be the embodiment of respectability, it turns out Barack Obama is a role model for resistance.
Aug 27, 2014 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry
Radical Jihadists Gain Ground in Iraq Radical Jihadists Gain Ground in Iraq
All the neocons said we must conquer Iraq; It could harbor a terrorist crew. So invade it we did, and because of that fact, What they made up has really come true.
Aug 13, 2014 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Summer of Hate Summer of Hate
Eric Garner’s death marks a darkening mood fifty years after Freedom Summer.
Aug 13, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams
Government Whitewashing Didn’t Stop With Watergate Government Whitewashing Didn’t Stop With Watergate
Forty years after President Richard Nixon resigned, our leaders have become even less accountable.
Aug 8, 2014 / Column / Eric Alterman