Feature

A Luddite’s Virtual Book Tour

Get on Facebook, make a video, e-blast everyone you know

By Judith Matloff   Oct 6, 2009 at 09:05 PM

Just before my latest book, Home Girl, came out in June 2008, the Random House promotion team invited me in... More

Feature

Great Expectations

An Investigative News Network is born. Now what?

By Charles Lewis   Oct 6, 2009 at 09:04 PM

Call it the Pocantico Declaration. Back on July 1, the leaders of twenty muckraking nonprofit news organizations concluded a three-day... More

Feature

Take a Stand

How journalism can regain its relevance

By Brent Cunningham   Sep 29, 2009 at 08:00 AM

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, as the press faced criticism for failing to use the catastrophe to initiate a... More

Feature

The New Energy Beat

It’s global as well as local, environmental as well as financial. Can embattled newsrooms see the big picture?

By Curtis Brainard and Cristine Russell   Sep 24, 2009 at 12:00 AM

On a Monday morning in January, less than a week after his inauguration, President Barack Obama signed two memoranda designed... More

Cover Story

Disappearing Iraq

After a period of openness that benefited both the military and the media, the door is closing

By Jane Arraf   Sep 15, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Ah, the happy world of Iraq, as seen through U.S. military press releases. Iraq could be exploding—in fact, parts of... More

Cover Story

Too Close for Comfort?

Tom Ricks and the military’s new philosophical embeds

By Tara McKelvey   Sep 9, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Thomas E. Ricks has a photograph of a general—Ulysses S. Grant, looking haggard and defeated in Cold Harbor, Virginia—on the... More

Short Takes

All Together Now (II)

By Megan McGinley   Oct 6, 2009 at 08:46 PM

When the San Diego Union-Tribune went on sale in July 2008, veteran investigative reporter Lorie Hearn worried about the future... More

Short Takes

All Together Now (I)

By Brent Cunningham   Oct 6, 2009 at 08:44 PM

Not long ago, Kevin Murphy was simply the president of the Berks County Community Foundation in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city... More

Darts and Laurels

Darts and Laurels

News outlets in Connecticut grapple with a hostage crisis

By Greg Marx   Sep 17, 2009 at 09:42 AM

It was the kind of ethical dilemma that classroom case studies are made of, but the potential con- sequences of... More

Editorial

Truth? Yes, Sir!

Why we need a clearer view of both our wars

By The Editors   Sep 9, 2009 at 08:00 AM

General William Tecumseh Sherman, like a number of military leaders through history, despised journalists. Tom Curley, president and CEO of... More

Review

First Person Singular

An African master recedes behind his own myth

By Eula Biss   Oct 6, 2009 at 09:31 PM

In a letter to Chinua Achebe, John Updike once admired the swift and surprising ruin of the hero at the... More

Review

Raising Keynes

A new book paints the iconic economist as the ultimate realist

By Jeff Madrick   Oct 6, 2009 at 09:24 PM

How difficult it is to be right. John Maynard Keynes is “an entertaining economist whose bright but shallow dissertations on... More

Review

Brief Encounters

Short reviews of books on the Irish Revolution and animal rights crusaders

By James Boylan   Oct 6, 2009 at 09:19 PM

The News From Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and The Irish Revolution By Maurice Walsh I.B. Tauris 258 pages, £20 At the... More

Review

Rocket Man

An epic tale of men, missiles, and bureaucratic maneuvering

By Ryan Grim   Oct 6, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Humanity is now some sixty years into the nuclear age and has, somehow, yet to extinguish itself. How that somehow... More

Second Read

Of Heroes and Humans

Jim Brosnan wrote about himself, and sports writing evolved

By Michael Shapiro   Sep 22, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Red Smith, who wrote as well as anyone about athletes and the games they play, called the sports section the... More