And the Best Euphemism Award Goes To…

Come to Colombia! You probably won’t die!

By Julia Ioffe   Oct 27, 2008 at 03:56 PM

With campaign ads flooding the airwaves in the frantic push for the finish line, you’d be forgiven for missing the... More

The Therapeutic Press

The Russian media, um, underreports the financial crisis

By Julia Ioffe   Oct 14, 2008 at 04:10 PM

CNN.com led this morning with a story about kitchen-table financial panic fomenting backyard violence. “An out-of-work money manager in California... More

Color Me Whateverwhatever

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 26, 2008 at 10:27 PM

Who is voting on CNN's Peoplemeter?! Seriously. Yellow, cerulean, violet, periwinkle -- are the illegals voting??! More

Ukraine Girls Really Knock Me Out

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 26, 2008 at 10:25 PM

Props to McCain for pronouncing Timoshenko's name correctly. So-so on Yushchenko. Obama, unforch, bungled the bunglablest name in the debate:... More

What IS In That Man’s Eyes, Anyway?

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 26, 2008 at 10:24 PM

Vladimir Putin's eyes have got to be the most dreamiest on earth: what's IN there, anyway? A soul? Three letters?... More

To Russia, With Straight Talk

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 26, 2008 at 10:22 PM

For all those people Russia-side that were hoping, audaciously, that Russo-American tensions would ease should Obama get elected, well, Obama's... More

Holocaust? No Holocaust?

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 26, 2008 at 10:12 PM

Let's get the CNN Peoplemeter on this: Should we have another Holocaust? More

Indoor Voices, Pleez

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 26, 2008 at 10:02 PM

Wait, so as long as we don't rudely announce our intention to bomb Pakistan, we're good, right? Just do it... More

William Safire in tha House

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 26, 2008 at 09:52 PM

Let's be clear. There is a difference between strategy and tactic. To wit, OED defines tactics as "the art or... More

Lapel Flag Score

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 26, 2008 at 09:43 PM

Obama: 1. McCain: 0. More

Someone Should Give Bill O’Reilly His Own Show

But what on earth would they call it?

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 23, 2008 at 01:16 PM

This morning, Fox personality and self-impersonator Bill O’Reilly went on Good Morning America to peddle his eighth book, which goes... More

Through the Morning Show Wormhole

Three shows, two candidates, one talking point each

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 16, 2008 at 12:58 PM

You probably woke up with a gnarly Crisis-on-Wall-St. Hangover this morning, so you’ll be forgiven if you missed seeing John... More

Give Me Your Tired, Your Hungry, Your Gays

Lohan on Palin, at last.

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 15, 2008 at 03:01 PM

Early Sunday morning, anger roused Lindsay Lohan from a warm slumber in her girlfriend’s arms. No longer would she sit... More

Baby Come Back

Putin wants West to try a little tenderness

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 12, 2008 at 01:51 PM

Vladimir Putin, the former spook who has now managed to conjoin both ceremonial power and actual power as the Prime... More