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What Is Russia Today?
September 28, 2010 06:00 AM
On Election Day 2008, two African-American men in black fatigues and berets stood outside a polling station in a predominantly black neighborhood of Philadelphia. They were members of the New Black Panther Party, which the Southern Poverty Law Center... Continue reading
The Kicker

Here’s to a Decaf Stimulus
February 20, 2009 12:51 PM
Yesterday, modern-day patriot and CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli shed his reporter’s hat to reveal a hat he had long been wearing underneath, presumably for warmth: that of “veteran trader and financial executive.” He tried to start a riot... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

The Obama Telenovela
February 18, 2009 11:16 AM
It was on our first morning in Havana that my friend and I discovered how obsessively Cubans have been following recent developments in American politics. Our hostess, a middle-aged bleached blonde with a hardened good cheer, served us our eggs... Continue reading
The Kicker

Making a Ghoul of Yourself
October 31, 2008 12:13 PM
It’s Halloween, which, naturally, means it’s time for TV news people to make fools of themselves. To start the day off right, CNN trotted out Kiran Chetry to gauge world opinion about the upcoming U.S. election. As she chatted up... Continue reading
The Kicker

And the Best Euphemism Award Goes To…
October 27, 2008 03:56 PM
With campaign ads flooding the airwaves in the frantic push for the finish line, you’d be forgiven for missing the crop of “visit Colombia” commercials swirling like a bambuco dancer through your television set. These commercials, which are part of... Continue reading
Behind the News

The Therapeutic Press
October 14, 2008 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 loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide,” the story reports. “A 90-year-old Ohio widow... Continue reading
The Kicker

Color Me Whateverwhatever
September 26, 2008 10:27 PM
Who is voting on CNN's Peoplemeter?! Seriously. Yellow, cerulean, violet, periwinkle -- are the illegals voting??! Continue reading
The Kicker

Ukraine Girls Really Knock Me Out
September 26, 2008 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: Saakashvili. Continue reading
The Kicker

What IS In That Man’s Eyes, Anyway?
September 26, 2008 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? A mirror? Continue reading
The Kicker

To Russia, With Straight Talk
September 26, 2008 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 talking tough, too. A resurgent Russia, he said, is a threat. Just what the Kremlin hardliners want to hear. Good... Continue reading
The Kicker

Holocaust? No Holocaust?
September 26, 2008 10:12 PM
Let's get the CNN Peoplemeter on this: Should we have another Holocaust? Continue reading
The Kicker

Indoor Voices, Pleez
September 26, 2008 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 and let the Times dig it up later. Just, for Pete's sake, don't say it out loud. So rude. Continue reading
The Kicker

William Safire in tha House
September 26, 2008 09:52 PM
Let's be clear. There is a difference between strategy and tactic. To wit, OED defines tactics as "the art or science of deploying military or naval forces in order of battle, and of performing warlike evolutions and maneuvers." Strategy,... Continue reading
The Kicker

Lapel Flag Score
September 26, 2008 09:43 PM
Obama: 1. McCain: 0. Continue reading
The Kicker

Someone Should Give Bill O’Reilly His Own Show
September 23, 2008 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 on sale today. Modestly titled A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, the memoir traces O’Reilly’s modest Levittown... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

Through the Morning Show Wormhole
September 16, 2008 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 McCain and Joe Biden violate the laws of physics by appearing, minutes apart, on three morning shows, back to back,... Continue reading
The Kicker

Give Me Your Tired, Your Hungry, Your Gays
September 15, 2008 03:01 PM
Early Sunday morning, anger roused Lindsay Lohan from a warm slumber in her girlfriend’s arms. No longer would she sit on the political sidelines and let Matt Damon do all the talking. It was time to call a spade a... Continue reading
Behind the News

Baby Come Back
September 12, 2008 01:51 PM
Vladimir Putin, the former spook who has now managed to conjoin both ceremonial power and actual power as the Prime President of Russia, is sad these days. He just doesn’t understand why, over a month after Russia sent columns of... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

Memo? What Memo?
September 2, 2008 12:53 PM
On a breezy Thursday evening in New York City, under the giant metal globe at Columbus Circle, several disgruntled Hillary-ites were not going quietly into the night. “A vote for McCain is a vote for Hillary,” explained Mary Houston, a... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

Left Behind
August 28, 2008 05:52 PM
Lefties left behind wish desperately they were among The Fifteen Thousand Witnessing History in the Mile High City. Instead, they have to rely on said Fifteen Thousand to bring them coverage of the Convention and on Talking Points Memo Café... Continue reading

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