James Warren

OMAHA -- More than 30,000 roared when executive compensation consultants were called prostitutes. It was similar when libertarian former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was caricatured as believing that any axe murder must be good if it occurs in a free market.

There was funny video featuring the cast of...

Chicago may be a flyover city for the elite in Los Angeles. But personal checks appear to be dropping from their Gulfstreams as they pass overhead -- and right into the coffers of Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel.

The former presidential chief of staff left scant doubt late Thursday that...

Goldman Sachs, poster child for the double-edge sword of mega-success, now finds that even an act of seeming charity brings rebuke.

The Oct. 30 The Week notes that Goldman boss Lloyd Blankfein "tried to pre-empt the angry backlash" over its $3.19 billion in third quarter profits and dispensing of...

No matter how much he might disdain the George W. Bush presidency, especially when it comes to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a "self-entangling giant" who is going down the same perilous path argues no less an initial Obama sympathizer than journalist-historian Garry Wills in the...

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No matter how much he might disdain the George W. Bush presidency, especially when it comes to misuse of executive branch power,...

One doesn't quite associate Internet sex with the august and high-brow New York Review of Books. But the Sept. 24 issue at least gives us sex and the internet.

In "Men and Boys," we're quickly reminded that, "From antiquity to the present, nothing has given admirers of the Greeks so...

Hurrah! Giorgio Armani thinks newspapers are cool (sort of)!...A new magazine about traveling "with a purpose"...A melancholy look at Bosnia and the Dayton Accord...Time on work, Newsweek on Jamie Dimon and the New Yorker on last year's Wall Street debacle...And Consumer Reports tells us which store brands really do taste...

Those old, wicked animosities between New York City and Conway, Ark., are heating up.

Huh?

The latest issue of the Conway-based Oxford American, an engaging window on Southern writing and culture, takes after the famously Manhattan-based New Yorker for an August opus by Malcolm Gladwell in which he raised questions...

Some jilted lovers don't get mad, they get even. Jenny Sanford, wife of the South Carolina governor, decided to get Anna Wintour.

"Notes on a Scandal" in the annual giant September issue of Vogue is the de facto national coming out of the spouse of Mark Sanford. And, ah, it's...

Months before we're inundated with distinctly avoidable year-end lists of best this and best that comes August Outside, proclaiming "The Best Places to Live."

No surprise, this bastion of the Chablis, Brie and kayak crowd doesn't go with Detroit, New York, Los Angeles or Chicago (where its main office resided,...

The August 14 issue of The Week will deflate the male species far more than insurance lobbyists seek to puncture the Obama administration on health care reform. In sum, they're "no more attractive than their cavemen ancestors."

This is according to a little-known species of undetermined physical allure and charisma,...

Adoring Michael Jackson fans, and their many journalistic enablers, will gag over a stinging critique, "Michael," in the Aug. 13 New York Review of Books, a high-brow publication not likely to be found by their beds. They'll have to seek comfort, instead, in a reverential September Ebony, with the...

If you're into yoga, you might want to skip "Body, Brain and Wallet" in the Aug. 3 Forbes.

The business magazine gives ample space to allegations contained in a lawsuit brought against Dahn Yoga & Health Centers, an Arizona-based chain of 139 yoga centers, by 27 former customers...

So last week the Wall Street Journal informed us about all the economists who are stars of the blogosphere, generating gazillions of page views as they generally...

The allure of Christiane Amanpour has always been intertwined with no-frills attire in sync with the mostly dour and dangerous locales from which she reports.

Now comes Amanpour, CNN doyenne of haute couture.

(Photo credit: Martin Schoeller)

August Harper's Bazaar includes...

Just as one shouldn't be shocked if Dick Cheney did order the CIA to hide a secret intelligence project, don't do a double-take if Cheney's generation openly approves of online dating. In fact, an academic paper on the latter may be more...

Sheila Bair is a Bull Moose in the China shop of the Obama administration's economic team, suggests July 6-July 13 New Yorker as it examines internal tensions over regulatory reform in "The Contrarian."

Ryan Lizza profiles the boss of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a Republican moderate from Kansas...

This may be a golden era of betrayal. Bernie Madoff, Eliot Spitzer, Chris Brown, Rod Blagojevich, Alex Rodriguez and Mel Gibson are among the liars and cheats who've hurt their biggest fans and chums the most. It justifies July Town & Country's "How Could You?" a smart overview of being...

It's been a tough week for Oprah. First a terrific Newsweek cover underscored her penchant to legitimize wacky medical claims on her show. Now June 22 Forbes dethrones her as the "most powerful celebrity."

After a two-year reign, she slips to second, behind Angelina Jolie, despite estimated earnings...