SNL Spoofs Fox News’ Election ’09 Coverage SNL Spoofs Fox News’ Election ’09 Coverage
Glenn Beck, Karl Rove and the rest of the Fox News crew declare the Obama presidency over after just ten months in office.
Nov 10, 2009 / Video / Saturday Night Live
Jon Stewart’s Brilliant Glenn Beck Parody Jon Stewart’s Brilliant Glenn Beck Parody
Jon Stweart says there's a war going on in America, and the stakes are nothing less than Glenn Beck's internal organs.
Nov 6, 2009 / Video / The Daily Show
Gladwell for Dummies Gladwell for Dummies
Malcolm Gladwell's success as a brand-name thinker rests on the assumption that the unexamined life is the only sort his readers could be living.
Nov 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Maureen Tkacik
Linguistic Currency Linguistic Currency
In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.
Nov 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Deficit Hawk Hysteria Deficit Hawk Hysteria
The time to pay down the deficit will come only after the economy recovers.
Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
The End of the Story? The End of the Story?
Archie Brown's account of the high politics of communism's collapse is Kremlinology without the guesswork.
Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Lars T. Lih
Empire Falls: The Revolutions of 1989 Empire Falls: The Revolutions of 1989
The story of communism's rise and fall in Eastern Europe is a tale of two revolutions.
Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Grigor Suny
The Generation That Failed The Generation That Failed
Yugoslavs were unprepared for the surge of nationalism that followed Tito's communist rule.
Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Slavenka Drakulic
Gorbachev on 1989 Gorbachev on 1989
A wide-ranging Nation interview with the former Soviet president.
Oct 28, 2009 / Q&A / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen
‘U.S. Will Order Pay Cuts at Firms With Bailout Aid’ ‘U.S. Will Order Pay Cuts at Firms With Bailout Aid’
The Wall Street types consider this unfair--they say they earned their money fair and square.
Oct 28, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin