Memo? What Memo?

Think Hillary hard-liners don’t exist? Think again

By Julia Ioffe   Sep 2, 2008 at 12:53 PM

On a breezy Thursday evening in New York City, under the giant metal globe at Columbus Circle, several disgruntled Hillary-ites... More

Left Behind

Hearts aflame, commenters speak fire

By Julia Ioffe   Aug 28, 2008 at 05:52 PM

Lefties left behind wish desperately they were among The Fifteen Thousand Witnessing History in the Mile High City. Instead, they... More

Blogging For Truth

Russian war bloggers tell—and show—what they saw at the front

By Julia Ioffe   Aug 21, 2008 at 09:37 AM

Bearing cigarettes, crackers, and salami, Krig42 returned to Tskhinvali on August 15th in search of the truth. The city, which... More

No Reception

Georgia cuts access to the last Russian radio station left standing

By Julia Ioffe   Aug 20, 2008 at 04:33 PM

The officially anti-Georgian media blitz inside Russia has been well documented, but now it turns out the Georgians have been... More

Georgians Hate Fox News

So does some fat guy

By Julia Ioffe   Aug 14, 2008 at 02:56 PM

Forget what I said about American reporters rarely training the cameras on themselves. Fox News went to Gori, Georgia (still... More

Blogging From The Front

At great personal peril, Russian bloggers report on the Georgian war

By Julia Ioffe   Aug 13, 2008 at 08:48 AM

At 6:19 p.m. this past Saturday, Russian journalist Mikhail Romanoff added a two-line post to his personal blog from the... More

And Lindsay Lohan Is Pop-Culture Lupus

A chaotic American Morning

By Julia Ioffe   Aug 8, 2008 at 02:12 PM

All you scrooges still grumbling about the devolution of the American press into yellow journalism, take heart! You’re right! Today,... More

PAU

By Julia Ioffe   Aug 1, 2008 at 02:23 PM

Just when we thought it was over, the second season comes anon: it’s Politics As Usual time, folks, by which... More

Poor Tartuffe

By Julia Ioffe   Jul 28, 2008 at 04:21 PM

While minority journalists stretched themselves into a soul-searching pretzel debating whether they should applaud Barack Obama when he spoke at... More

CNN = Cosmo

By Julia Ioffe   Jul 24, 2008 at 06:11 PM

CNN = Politics, but CNN sometimes = Cosmo. Because sex sells page views in a way that muckraking doesn’t, the... More

Beating a Dead, Misunderstood Horse, Part Deux

By Julia Ioffe   Jul 22, 2008 at 05:32 PM

Except the horse isn’t dead—and neither are our nation’s guerilla satirists! Not surprisingly, they’re hiding out, starved yet resolved, in... More

Beating a Dead, Misunderstood Horse

By Julia Ioffe   Jul 21, 2008 at 03:37 PM

Sneaking in one last pundit punch before the New Yorker hits newsstands with a new cover this week, meta-media critic... More

The Troglodytes Are Coming!

By Julia Ioffe   Jul 18, 2008 at 12:28 PM

God bless Lou Dobbs, America’s only working home-security system. If it weren’t for him, you’d never know what to be... More

My Friend(s)

By Julia Ioffe   Jul 17, 2008 at 02:52 PM

My friends, in discussing the verbal tics of certain aspiring presidents, I would be remiss to pass over the punishing... More

The Digital Elders of Zion and a Lesson for Obama

By Julia Ioffe   Jul 16, 2008 at 01:18 PM

If you go to www.eldersofzion.com expecting to find the old tsarist forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, you’ll... More