Journalists and Journalism

Court Reporter Court Reporter

On June 4, 1961, John F. Kennedy held his last meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna.

Mar 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder

Donahue’s Demise Donahue’s Demise

The day before MSNBC announced that it was pulling the plug on Phil Donahue's nightly show, the man who pretty much invented talk TV was interviewing actress and author Rosie O'...

Mar 2, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols

The Scourge of Baltimore The Scourge of Baltimore

As truth-tellers, journalists remain the undocumented aliens of the knowledge industry, operating in an off-the-books epistemological economy apart from philosophers and scient...

Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano

On Culturing a Union On Culturing a Union

American labor still pays lip service to the idea that it seeks "bread and roses too"--a higher standard of living, plus the chance for workers to enjoy some of the finer thing...

Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early

Farewell, My Cokie Farewell, My Cokie

Speaking on NPR recently, Cokie Roberts, the soon-to-retire co-host of ABC's This Week, falsely informed her listeners that "the President was exonerated by the Securities and ...

Jul 18, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Bad Work Bad Work

Howard Gardner, the noted education/cognition specialist, recently undertook, with two colleagues, an in-depth study of the work-related happiness of two groups of people, gene...

May 2, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

The Pull of ‘New Gravity’ The Pull of ‘New Gravity’

In an end-of-the-year column devoted to "Politics and Prose," Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic, asserted that there had been a "new gravity" and "sobriety" to American jo...

Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mordue

In Cold Type In Cold Type

The new Daedalus is out. I have to admit to having not read Daedalus with much fervor in the past, say, fifteen years (well, if ever, to be honest), but I was curious about the ve...

Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

Two Cheers for Our Side Two Cheers for Our Side

One of the pitfalls of publishing a weekly journal of critical opinion at a moment when the political culture has drifted to the right is that there is so much of which to be cri...

Feb 28, 2002 / The Editors

Condolences to Musharraf Condolences to Musharraf

What the Islamic fascists do, and what they believe, and what they intend, are three aspects of the same one-dimensional thing. It is ludicrous to accuse them of being untrue to th...

Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

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