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Are the Rich Really Risk-Takers?

By admin on Friday, May 4th, 2012 | No Comments

Catherine Karnow / Corbis The most pungent response I’ve yet heard to the I spoke to him by phone earlier today. The following is not an exact quote—Hanauer was talking too urgently for me to capture every word, but here’s the gist: Risk-taking? These guys aren’t risk-takers. Think of the founders of Google. They came [...]

The 99 Percent Wakes Up

By admin on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 | No Comments

Darrell Willis wears a “99%” button and an American flag at the corner of LaSalle and Jackson during an Occupy Chicago protest Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, in Chicago. “Occupy Chicago” protests started Monday near the Federal Reserve Bank and Chicago Board of Trade, as demonstrators speak out against corporate greed and social inequality., Charles Rex [...]

Can Ryan Accept Blame for Losing the House?

By admin on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 | No Comments

House Budget Chairman U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) (L) and members of the House Budget Committee introduce the House FY2013 budget at a news conference at the Capitol on March 20, 2012 in Washington, D.C., T.J. Kirkpatrick / Getty Images Jon Karl has a Ryan said yes, whether because he genuinely agreed, or because invoking [...]

The Depression’s Ignoble Savages

By admin on Monday, April 30th, 2012 | No Comments

Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road dramatizes a Georgian sharecropper family made cruel and vile by debilitating poverty. Nathaniel Rich writes that it shows just how much the intellectual preoccupations of the ‘20s were swept aside by the Great Depression. As a comedy, Tobacco Road is a modest failure; as a tragedy, it’s an abject failure. And [...]

Obama’s China-Dissident Crisis

By admin on Saturday, April 28th, 2012 | No Comments

The daring escape from house arrest by blind Chinese rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who is believed to have found refuge in the United States embassy, has sparked a major diplomatic crisis between the two governments as they prepare to meet for a series of top-level negotiations here next week. After 19 months under round-the-clock surveillance [...]

Old Friends and New

By admin on Friday, April 27th, 2012 | No Comments

In today’s installment of Patriots, Walter reconnects with an old friend, an embittered veteran of the defeated Williams administration: “I believed in ‘hope and change,’ ‘what unites us is more important than what divides us,’ ‘we live in the United States, not the blue states and the red states.’ All bullshit, but I believed it. [...]

Immigration Fumble at the Court

By admin on Thursday, April 26th, 2012 | No Comments

As hundreds of Latinos crowded in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday and chanted opposition to Arizona’s immigration law, it got a partial constitutional airing in what appeared to be a humiliating slap-down of the U.S. solicitor general. Arizona’s SB 1070 case, along with another on the Affordable Care Act heard by the [...]

Lighting by Michelangelo?

By admin on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 | No Comments

They look as banal as could be: A shelf full of old lighting globes made from white glass, some left with smudges of dirt. Readymades, redux. But Iran do Espirito Santo, the fine Brazilian conceptualist now showing at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, could never be as straightforward as that – and he isn’t. [...]

Morton Downey Jr.’s Top Outbursts

By admin on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 | No Comments

Back in 1987, Stripper for God Gets Pelvic-Thrusted One of the most infamous episodes of Morton Downey Jr.’s rowdy show involved a pair of “Strippers for God.” When Downey got in one of the strippers’ faces, she came back at him, at which point the host began thrusting at her with his pelvis, ordering her [...]

The Election Has Gone to the Dogs

By admin on Monday, April 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

White House / Flickr In my Just in case you had any lingering illusions that politics deals with substantial issues, here’s the issue that last week filled our media chatter: Which is worse – to put a dog on the roof of a fast-moving car or to eat dog-meat as food? As you probably know, [...]

Settling for Mitt

By admin on Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 | No Comments

“I don’t want it to sound like faint praise,” says Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold, a member of the Tea Party class of 2010 who stayed neutral during the party’s presidential primary, when I ask him about Mitt Romney. He repeats himself: “I don’t want it to sound like faint praise.” Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts [...]

Hitchens: A Life in Video

By admin on Friday, April 20th, 2012 | No Comments

Here is the Vanity Fair tribute video mentioned in my column about the Christoher Hitchens memorial service that will appear in this space in a few hours. articles

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Archive for the ‘World News’ Category

Are the Rich Really Risk-Takers?

The 99 Percent Wakes Up

Can Ryan Accept Blame for Losing the House?

The Depression’s Ignoble Savages

Obama’s China-Dissident Crisis

Old Friends and New

Immigration Fumble at the Court

Lighting by Michelangelo?

Morton Downey Jr.’s Top Outbursts

The Election Has Gone to the Dogs

Settling for Mitt

Hitchens: A Life in Video

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