Label Inflation in the NYC Mayoral Race Label Inflation in the NYC Mayoral Race
De Blasio has now been called a progressive, a communist and a fiscal conservative.
Oct 7, 2013 / Blog / Leslie Savan
‘60 Minutes’ Gets Disability Insurance All Wrong ‘60 Minutes’ Gets Disability Insurance All Wrong
A supposedly damning piece from CBS News omitted several key facts.
Oct 7, 2013 / Blog / George Zornick
Our House Is On Fire: The Reality of Our Changing Climate Our House Is On Fire: The Reality of Our Changing Climate
We might not want to acknowledge it, but climate change is real and it's happening now.
Oct 7, 2013 / Rebecca Solnit
Culture of Fear: Miriam Carey’s Tragedy, and Our Own Culture of Fear: Miriam Carey’s Tragedy, and Our Own
A troubled person appeared to attack the White House, and was shot to death—in 1976. Back then, a less fearful time, it didn’t become a national obsession.
Oct 4, 2013 / Blog / Rick Perlstein
Murdoch Newspapers Ignore Bill de Blasio’s Lead in Latest NYC Mayoral Race Poll Murdoch Newspapers Ignore Bill de Blasio’s Lead in Latest NYC Mayoral Race Poll
The latest polls and ads in the NYC mayor’s race.
Oct 4, 2013 / Blog / Leslie Savan
Will the Right Paint NYC’s Next First Lady as an ‘Angry Black Woman’? Will the Right Paint NYC’s Next First Lady as an ‘Angry Black Woman’?
After tagging Bill de Blasio a “commie,” how will they twist the image of Chirlane McCray?
Oct 3, 2013 / Blog / Leslie Savan
Marshall Berman: All That Is Solid Melts… Marshall Berman: All That Is Solid Melts…
Liberals honor a great public intellectual—while the editor of Commentary compares him to a Nazi.
Oct 2, 2013 / Column / Eric Alterman
Americans Hate Obamacare, Love Affordable Care Act Americans Hate Obamacare, Love Affordable Care Act
Jimmy Kimmel shows they don’t get that O’care=ACA.
Oct 2, 2013 / Blog / Leslie Savan
Bill de Blasio Hits Back at Joe Lhota’s ‘Commie’ Charge Bill de Blasio Hits Back at Joe Lhota’s ‘Commie’ Charge
Two blasts from the past in NYC mayor’s race, but media see only one explosion.
Oct 1, 2013 / Blog / Leslie Savan
Hollywood, Hitler and Harvard Hollywood, Hitler and Harvard
A leading critic has called on a leading publisher to withdraw and reissue a new book.
Sep 30, 2013 / Blog / Jon Wiener