In recent months, Iran has been conducting a campaign of harassing and intimidating members of its diaspora world-wide -- not just prominent dissident...
Jason Pinter | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books
I've asked six of the most renowned crime fiction critics in the country to weigh in with their thoughts on the state of the crime novel. I hope you find their responses as interesting as I did.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
Our government actually bails out the pork industry when it overproduces and buys up volumes of surplus pork, typically by dumping these surplus commodities into our nation's schools and food programs.
Tracey Jackson | Posted 08.24.2009 | Entertainment
When I read Ms. Dargis and all the other critics who sight Nicole Eastman, and Lutz and Smith as being unfunny or not able to deliver or "peddle shamelessly," all I can do is yell.
David Quigg | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media
We all have our limits. Abraham Lincoln's limit is that he left behind no wise counsel for the man who finds himself garmentless at 30,000 feet. But he did leave something for the Twitterers.
Jennifer Weiner | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living
Bad reviews, as any writer will tell you, are the price of doing business. Put your work out there in the world, and you can be sure that someone will rise up and declare "UR BOOK SUX!"
Danny Groner | Posted 06.18.2009 | Entertainment
Kobe Doin' Work, Spike Lee's new original ESPN documentary, provides an up-close look at what Kobe Bryant thinks about and considers during an NBA game.
Steven G. Kellman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Style
Snark presupposes a secret society of shared disdain. It preens, reveling in its own cleverness.
Mark Nickolas | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
If there's one thing about this presidential cycle that so excites me so much is just how much more irrelevant the traditional media has become.
Jacqueline Leo | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
The reason John McCain is ten points behind Barack Obama is, ironically, one of the main reasons people want to vote for him -- he's a maverick.
Marlene Rossman | Posted 09.15.2008 | Style
Why do we need experts (and I am one of those) to teach, tell and advise us on what wine tastes like? So we won't dribble it down our lips and bibs and never have a clue as to what we are tasting?
Wall Street Journal | Posted 12.04.2009 | World