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The Moussavi Misunderstanding

How the blogosphere and MSM turned a flawed man into a savior

It has been ten days since the Iran election on Friday, June 12, and while the country may still be... More

A Summers Story

Stories about Larry Summers often neglect to mention his Wall Street interlude

Exactly one month ago, the White House released financial documents on President Obama’s economic advisor, Larry Summers. They revealed, among... More

Poor Ted Stevens

Justice screwed up, but that doesn’t change what he did

The public reaction to Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision last week to dismiss the indictment of former Senator Ted Stevens... More

Profiles of Power

New sites seek to map the mighty

If the collapse of the global financial system has taught us anything, it's that Main Street deserves a great deal... More

Q & A: Former McCain Blogger Michael Goldfarb

“I was a cudgel. I pissed off the media.”

Michael Goldfarb was the McCain campaign's deputy communications director-cum-media bodyguard, tasked by McCain's high command with bullying the press into... More

Tornadoes in America

A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma

Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real

I have no hope for the future

One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue

What hard news misses

50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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