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Hope 2.0: Standing With Obama Over the Long Haul

Mark Klempner | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Liberal Media, Heathcare Reform, Radical Middle, Progressive Values, Progressive Agenda, Social Security, Economic Crisis, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama, Progressive Politics, Progressive Movement, Obama Economy, Barack Obama, Radical Center, Barack Obama 2008, Liberal Blogosphere, Obama Change, Harper's Magazine, Financial Meltdown, Financial Crisis, Medicare, Bipartisanship, Radical Centrism, Obama Liberal, Progressive Media, Elitism, Politics News
Mark Klempner

It's not that I object to critical thinking. We need it. Yet, while we're reminding Obama of his promises and scrutinizing him on his decisions, we need to stand with him.

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The Difference Between Criticism and Hate Speech

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican National Committee, Mark Levin, Right Wing Media, Audra Shay, Rush Limbaugh, Right Wing, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Obama Hitler, Joseph Stiglitz, Sarah Palin, Harpers Magazine, Health Care Reform, Rush Limbaugh Obama, New York Times, Hate Speech, Ben Stein, Republican Party, Virginia Foxx, Republicans, Politics News
Larry Gellman

They are whack jobs or hard-wired haters, but their influence and numbers are growing among what's left of the Republican party, the news media, and the former Confederacy.

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The Good, the Bad, & the Mediated

Carter Phipps | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Thomas De Zengotita, Consciousness, Mediated, Harpers Magazine, Narcissism, Marshall Mccluhan, Mediation, Posmodernity, Post-Modernism, Evolution, Pop Culture, Media, Norman Mailer, Culture, Media News
Carter Phipps

Everyone should read Thomas de Zengotita, not because he has the answers but because he's breaking new ground in tracking a whole field of disconcerting cultural trends.

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Could Great Magazines Publish Less Original Material?

Julia Cheiffetz | Posted 06.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Distraction, Mark Twain, Madoff, Wired, Gourmet Magazine, Wired Magazine, Magazines, Harpers Magazine, Vogue Magazine, Media News
Julia Cheiffetz

During this moment of transition when budgets for long form journalism seem scarcer by the day, maybe looking to the classics or the public domain is one tiny way to keep our collective attention span in tact.

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This Week in Magazines: A Jihad on Behalf of Usury Laws, An "Idiot's Guide to Pakistan," and The Agenda for K Street's Trout Lobbyists

James Warren | Posted 05.06.2009 | Media

Read More: This Week in Magazines, New Yorker, Tim Geithner, Harpers Magazine, Larry Summers, Usury, Media News
James Warren

Geithner and Summers don't mention ancient Babylonia in addressing the financial crisis. But Chicago attorney Thomas Geoghegan sure does in Harper's "Infinite Debt."

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This Week in Magazines: Michelle, Carla and Silda: Hero, Badass and the Humiliated

James Warren | Posted 04.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Silda Spitzer, New Yorker, Michelle Obama, Carla Bruni, Harpers Magazine, Media News
James Warren

Dahling, you must get the latest Vogue. The March issue of the longtime fashion arbiter gives us a radiant Michelle Obama on the cover and a reverent tale.

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All is Vanity (Fair): The Man Who Owns the News

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 03.14.2009 | Media

Read More: News Corp, Los Angeles Dodgers, Us Weekly, Michael Wolff, Harper's Magazine, New York Post, Vanity Fair, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Times of London, The Man Who Owns the News, Wall Street Journal, Books, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

In Michael Wolff's book, he serves lots of candy and cat food as he tells the story of Murdoch's rise from scion of a smallish Australian newspaper empire to master of the universe in today's media world.

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Bush By The Numbers: Harper's Index Says Goodbye

Harpers | Posted 02.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Oil Profits, 2000 Election, Harper's Magazine, George W. Bush, Media News

Number of news stories from 1998 to Election Day 2000 containing "George W. Bush" and "aura of inevitability": 206 Amount for which Bush successful...

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This Week in Magazines: Vick's Dogs, Katrina's Race War, and Tight Abs for the New Year

James Warren | Posted 01.28.2009 | Media

Read More: This Week in Magazines, The Nation, Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker, Michael Vick, Harpers Magazine, Media News
James Warren

Michael Vick, a scummy pro football quarterback, has improbably inspired an uplifting New Year's odyssey, according to this week's Sports Illustrated.

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This Week in Magazines: Fixing Schools, Money, and the World

James Warren | Posted 12.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Money Magazine, Newsweek, This Week in Magazines, Time, Harpers Magazine, National Georgraphic, Media News
James Warren

One shouldn't even wonder why the Obama's didn't go through the motions of visiting a public school, Fareed Zakaria's article could be used as a job application, and Money's superior counsel.

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This Week in Magazines: Obama-Mania

James Warren | Posted 12.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Election 2008 Coverage, Sports Illustrated, This Week in Magazines, The New Yorker, The Economist, Election Reaction, Harpers Magazine, Barack Obama, Media News
James Warren

Not all's lost for the Republicans: John McCain apparently took the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Algeria according to the Economist's Global Electoral College poll.

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We are like a city on a hill

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Journalists, Diyala, Bombings, Fairy Tale, Obama, Puritan, Colonists, Province, Shiite, America, Pakistani Capital, Old Lord, Northern Sri Lanka, Border Region, John Winthrop, Terrorism, Mother Jones, Sevenfold, Algerian Capital, Prince, Army General, Islamabad, City Upon a Hill, Iraq War, Baghdad, Algeria, Mosques, Sunni, Female Suicide Bomber, Harper's Magazine, Pakistan, Iraqi, Jodhpur, Iraqi Officials, John McCain, Iraq Violence, India, Jamal Tawfiq, Opposition Leader, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

This election will show the public's choice, its mandate for the type of leader it wants to deal with complex issues, like why people use terrorism as a tactic to dialogue with those in power.

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Whose Blog Is It, Anyway?

Evan Handler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Harpers Magazine, New Yorker, It's Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive, Entertainment News
Evan Handler

After the show began its off-Broadway run I was asked to okay a major excerpt appearing in the very prestigious Harpers Magazine. The only problem with this was the editor.

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