Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan Talks Beck, Sarah Palin And Leaving The Right With Joy Behar (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 12.08.2009 | Media

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Andrew Sullivan has been straying from the right for quite a while, but he recently made his separation official, saying "To paraphrase Reagan, I didn...

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Andrew Sullivan: I'm Breaking From The Right

Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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Reacting to prominent conservative blogger Charles Johnson's announcement that he would not follow the right wing off a cliff, Andrew Sullivan is offe...

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Crowdsourcing Content and Demand: Andrew Sullivan's "View From Your Window" Book

Eileen Gittins | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books

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Eileen Gittins

For three years, Sullivan had been inviting his blog community to upload pictures of the view from their windows. He wanted to compile a selection of these images into a book that captures the breadth and width of the web.

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Basic Truths in Hoh Resignation Letter Were True When He Took His Job

David Quigg | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

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David Quigg

The basic grim truths that Matthew Hoh wrote about in his much-quoted resignation letter were all basically true when he took his job a few months ago.

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Projection TV: Real Americans Watch Fox News

Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Tom Sullivan

Conservatives -- or "Real Americans" -- are easily threatened, and view those outside their tribe with suspicion. Those outside their tribe don't deserve a lot: especially not the right to vote.

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Why Some Elites Never Have to Say They're Sorry

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

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Jonathan Weiler

It's sign of a corrupt political/intellectual culture that being wrong in highly consequential ways appears to have no bearing on your implicit moral standing to propound in weighty terms on the crucial issues of the day.

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The Pen-Stroke Fallacy

Mark Kleiman | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

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Mark Kleiman

A reversal of DADT that comes up from the bottom rather than down from the top will be much harder for a Republican president to undo. Yes, patience in the face of injustice is hard. But that doesn't make impatience a virtue.

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Jason Linkins

Andrew Sullivan's McCaughey Mea Culpa Hints At Internal Struggle At The New Republic

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

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Speaking of Betsy McCaughey, her return to the spotlight has prompted a second round of mea culpas from The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, who was the ed...

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Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner's Wedding Registry Includes Spatulas And Placemats

New York Times | Christine Haughney | Posted 10.05.2009 | Style

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At Williams-Sonoma, the couple selected four spatulas that each cost $10 or less, along with $19.95 stackable measuring cups. They registered for a do...

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Andrew Sullivan's Appeal Boosts The Atlantic Subscriptions

New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media

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Within two days after last Monday's post, Mr. Sullivan's appeal pulled in 75 percent of the subscriptions that the Web site draws in a typical month, ...

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Head in the Sand?

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Clarence B. Jones

On issues of race, Obama will forever be either the man who healed the septic wound that runs across the back of this nation, or the man who turned away from the mirror to solve more "practical" issues.

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Andrew Sullivan's "Special" Treatment Should Be Standard

Mason Tvert | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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Mason Tvert

Sullivan may have received special treatment, but he received the appropriate treatment. Now, we need to change our marijuana laws so that this appropriate treatment is the rule, not the exception.

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Andrew Sullivan Slams Chris Wallace Over Cheney Interview

Daily Dish | Andrew Sullivan | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Here are the tough and penetrating questions asked by Chris Wallace of a man whose critics accuse of war crimes, and whose administration presided ove...

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Why Can't the Boomers Just Shut Up About Woodstock?

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

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Nathan Hegedus

Unless you were backing up Janis Joplin in a secret jam session, or at least at, you know, actually at Woodstock, please, shut up.

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Joseph Farah's Birther Factory

Terry Krepel | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

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Terry Krepel

Joseph Farah is not a journalist. He is not a journalist -- he's a partisan political operative, just as he was before.

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On Embracing Digital Skeletons

Adriana Dunn | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

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Adriana Dunn

How does a blogger embrace the others who will pivot you toward relative truth?

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Andrew Sullivan: I Supported The War In Iraq "Like A Teenaged Girl Supporting The Jonas Brothers"

Politico | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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Today at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Andrew Sullivan discussed his blogging past, present and future before a packed lunchtime crowd and it was Sullivan...

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A "Penultimate Step" in the Fight to End the HIV Travel Ban

Steve Ralls | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

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Steve Ralls

The Department of Health and Human Services has issued regulations that would end the United States' decades-old HIV travel and immigration ban.

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Iranian Women: We Feel Cheated, Frustrated, And Betrayed (UPDATES)

Diane Tucker | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

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Diane Tucker

Look closely at the images of mass demonstrations taking place in Iran this week and you will see them: thousands of brave Iranian women taking to the streets to protest an election they feel was stolen.

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Searching for Answers in the Shadow of George Tiller's Murder

Susan J. Demas | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

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Susan J. Demas

Some people know he did the right thing. What I'm not sure of is where that line is, between utter certitude in your beliefs and the willingness to kill for them. On Sunday, it got a lot blurrier.

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Tribunal Announces Plan To Punish Dick Cheney By Featuring Family In Reality Show

Lee Stranahan | Posted 06.20.2009 | Comedy

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Lee Stranahan

Other cast members include George W. Bush, former Idaho Senator Larry Craig, former vice presidential nominee John Edwards, talk show host Michael Savage, political blogger Andrew Sullivan and reality star Kate Gosselin.

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Cap-and-Trade vs. Carbon Tax: A Bird in Hand Is Worth Two on Alpha Centauri

David Roberts | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

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David Roberts

grist.orgI find it really hard to believe, but the perennial "carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade" debate is still going on. It goes on and on and on and it ...

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Don't Let Cheney Pick the Battlefield

David Quigg | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

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David Quigg

My point is simple: We cannot let Dick Cheney set the terms of America's debate about torture.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 22, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

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Well, shucks. I didn't think it'd be possible to ride in that Well Fargo wagon, what with it's wheels all broke and it's axle all draggin'. Turns ou...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 20, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.21.2009 | Media

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Imagine you had invited me to your home for some sort of potluck dinner, and I had promised to bring a freshly baked pie, only to show up with a pie p...

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