Saturday Night Live’s VP Debate: With Tina Fey, Queen Latifah Saturday Night Live’s VP Debate: With Tina Fey, Queen Latifah
In an uproarious recreation of the 2008 VP showdown, Fey introduces a flute for the 'talent portion of the debate.'
Oct 5, 2008 / Video / Saturday Night Live
Homer Simpson vs. Electronic Voting Homer Simpson vs. Electronic Voting
The Simpsons character encounters a corrupted electronic voting machine: 'This doesn't happen in America! Maybe in Ohio, but not in America!'
On a Clear Day, I See Vladivostok On a Clear Day, I See Vladivostok
The song of a political visionary--with apologies to Alan Jay Lerner.
Oct 1, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Paul Newman Paul Newman
He was funny, he was thoughtful, he was committed and, in the end, he was a friend, period.
Oct 1, 2008 / Editorial / Victor Navasky
Looking Backward Looking Backward
As America's second Gilded Age fissions around us, we can sense the zeitgeist shift. Are we staring into the abyss of 1929 or heading for a new New Deal?
Oct 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser
From Gorbachev to Putin From Gorbachev to Putin
Five authors provide differing views of the post-glasnost era and of the failed promise of democratic reform in Russia.
Oct 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert V. Daniels
No Exit: Laurence Tribe and ‘The Invisible Constitution’ No Exit: Laurence Tribe and ‘The Invisible Constitution’
Laurence Tribe's new book asks us to consider the "invisible" web of ideas that have grown around the text of the Constitution. But who's to say what it contains?
Oct 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
New England New England
In New England the equipmental quality of equipment was discovered, the cleaning lady was deported, ants invade the attic and this is sad. There is no Bronx River Expressway there are single beds and shutters and rafters and a flash of lightning in the sky. There are thoughts like Old World, New World, Bank Vault and Whale. Happiness is a battering ram of one if by land two if by tiptoe, three if by a haunted house intrepid in its scholars, o'wearied in its deep.
Oct 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Lisa Jarnot
The Communist Manifesto Turns 160 The Communist Manifesto Turns 160
As Karl Marx's opus marks a big birthday, capitalism seems willing to mark the occasion by dropping dead.
Oct 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barbara Ehrenreich
Will Letterman and Saturday Night Live Help Defeat McCain? Will Letterman and Saturday Night Live Help Defeat McCain?
If Letterman and Saturday Night Live continue to cast McCain as a liar, it could have a devastating impact.
Sep 29, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Adam Howard