The CIA and the Murdoch organization are protected by their own consistently bad behavior and negative image.
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Jackson is hereby transmuted -- to the choir strains of a rather extraordinary send-off -- into not just a holy figure but a living icon of the racial and political wars.
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media
Is it really possible to have had as much sex as the Kennedys had? Well, anyway, thank God for it. The Kennedy sex saga is really the story that keep...
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
Arrayed against an establishment, both Democratic and Republican, which says she is a hopeless lightweight and obviously illegitimate, Palin keeps coming, keeps giving offense.
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
How come Jenny Sanford has become a heroine for American women in the new sex wars?
WWD | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media
For Michael Wolff, the best thing about moving to the East Village from the Upper East Side may be the chance to fight with a whole new set of people:...
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.01.2009 | Style
Apparently half of adult Americans use vibrators, according to a new study. That does not mean that women use vibrators and men don't. Rather it's 50% of women and 45% of men.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business
How many more years in prison did Bernie Madoff get for being Jewish? We might as well get the question out there. It's surfaced since the Madoff arr...
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media
One of the most mocked, vilified, and calumniated people of our time has, overnight, been transmuted into... a saint.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.27.2009 | Entertainment
While his is an end long foretold, it will nevertheless receive and, by tabloid rules, require obsessive explanation and a search for both evil parties and an appropriately squalid back story.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media
Fox News is apparently on track to have its best year ever. WTF?
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
It may be that many successful public companies are run by crazy buggers -- secretive, paranoid, and contrary to a fantastic degree. It may be that Steve Jobs is actually a breath of fresh air.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media
More than murder, corruption, war, scandal, it's revolution that the media adores.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media
The best client you could have if you are an intellectual property lawyer is JD Salinger. The second best is JK Rowling.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
The president's posture now is to openly overthink the Iran situation. He's a walking existential conundrum, and letting everybody know it.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.18.2009 | New York
Obama's speech was meant to draw the line between his real reform and all other fake reforms. And it drew it -- a bit.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
The Democrats have pretty much gotten it: The Panetta point is that Cheney's not just a fearmonger, but something like a short-seller.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media
Over the past number of months a consensus has formed among media companies trying to do business on the Internet that advertising alone cannot support their efforts.
Andy Plesser | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
The author says that giant media company "knows nothing about technology."
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media
Fox News more and more represents not just another point of view but a peculiar one, which comes with its own logic, mores, rituals and mythology.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living
Checking your phone is the official, and nearly acceptable, way to say you're boring me.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Michael Bloomberg is in the most existential of political positions: Most voters, according to a recent poll, don't want him, and yet are unable to defeat him.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
Gordon Brown is over, done with, kaput, finis. There isn't a sentient person not on his payroll who'd say otherwise.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
Obama blew a chill into the intransigent heart of Israel by indicating a realignment of official attitudes, relationships, and diplomatic norms.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
Berlusconi is one of the modern world's great flukes and mysteries. Everywhere else, even the most suspect political leaders have to make a pretense of statesman-like dignity.
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media