The New Yorker

Marriage: A Cakewalk

Joyce McFadden | Posted 07.28.2008 | Style

Read More: The New Yorker, Madonna, Women's Studies, Marriage, The New York Times, Christie Brinkley, Infidelity, Sexuality in Marriage, A-Rod, Style News
Joyce McFadden

As we learn from those in the public eye, couples can come undone no matter how together they look from the outside.

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Maureen Dowd and Jon Stewart: Senator Obama Has a Sense of Humor Do You?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Novels, Jon Stewart, The Election, The New Yorker, Senator Obama, Maureen Dowd, Humor, New Yorker Barack Obama, Barack Obama New Yorker Cover, Media News
Frank Schaeffer

There are worse things than being serious. Being robbed of a country that that we can be proud of is one. We are voting for Obama to restore hope and national pride, without which laughter makes no sense.

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I Know It's Satire, But I Still Don't Like the Obama New Yorker Cover

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Art, John McCain, The New Yorker, Political Satire, Barack Obama, David Remnick, Cindy McCain, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

The New Yorker cover art depicts Obama in a way that McCain simply never could be. Obama is "the Other." Something "foreign" and "un-American."

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New Yorker Unveils Next Week's Cover: Baruch Obama!

Tony Hendra | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media

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Tony Hendra

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Breaking: Satire to Sue New Yorker

Steve Young | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Political Satire, The New Yorker, Make Believe, Barack Obama, Media News
Steve Young

"Satire" -- the word and its definition -- has filed suit against The New Yorker for classifying its cartoon depiction of Barack and Michele Obama as satire.

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Out Of Line: Terrorists Training

Mort Gerberg | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media

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Mort Gerberg

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Obama is "Anti-Christ Muslim" Email Still Circulating -- And Here It Is

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Muslim, The New Yorker, New Yorker Cartoon, Barack Obama, Smears, Obama Email Smear, Barack Obama Email Smear, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

With all the attention on this week's New Yorker cover, it should not be overlooked that one email that inspired it is still circulating, though long repudiated by the alleged author.

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Provincial Progressives: The New Yorker Magazine and Why Obama May Lose

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

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Frank Schaeffer

The editors of the New Yorker should really get to know the "other" a bit better and hang out less with people like themselves -- and more with the unwashed mob they scorn.

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Forget the Petitions - Show Me the Money

Elizabeth Ross | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home

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How about a good old fashioned grassroots boycott to get our point across to the New Yorker?

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That New Yorker Cover

Peter Clothier | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Obama, The New Yorker, Barack Obama, Barack Obama New Yorker Cover, Media News
Peter Clothier

The New Yorker forgot the vast mass of voters who lack the critical discrimination to read their cover in other than literal terms: those many who will understand it at face value, not for its ironical intention.

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Obama Releases List of Approved Jokes About Himself

Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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Andy Borowitz

Saying he is "sympathetic to late night comedians' struggle to find jokes to make about me," Sen. Obama today issued a list of official campaign-approved Barack Obama jokes.

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The New Yorker's Willie Horton Incident

Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Michelle Obama, November Election, The New Yorker, Cartoon, Barack Obama, Media News
Andy Ostroy

The New Yorker gambled big with this cover. If it's intention was to be controversial and dominate the news, it succeeded. But if it's goal was to present a compelling message, it failed miserably.

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The New Yorker Helps To Fuel The Rumors With Bad Satire

Bob Cesca | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, New Yorker Obama Cover, The New Yorker, Media News
Bob Cesca

The people worthy of satire aren't the Obamas, but rather the a**hats who are actively passing off this crap as the truth. Without the correct tone, we run the risk of feeding the rumor rather than killing it.

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Roundup of Media Reaction to Obama New Yorker Cover: Satire or 'Dumb Stunt'?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media

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Greg Mitchell

Reaction today to the now-famous cover art in the New Yorker this week has been swift and wildly varying. Here is a cross-section.

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A Fist-Bump for the New Yorker

John McQuaid | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media

Read More: 2008 Campaign, The New Yorker Obama Cover, The New Yorker, Terrorism, Barack Obama, Media News
John McQuaid

When liberals start policing the "poor taste" of cartoons so that some people don't get the "wrong idea," it only reinforces the notion that all the fearmongering was effective, and perhaps right.

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A Modest Proposal: Dealing with the New Yorker Aftermath

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media

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Jeffrey Feldman

Rather than end this discussion, the New Yorker should host a large public gathering for Americans seeking to express outrage at an election hijacked by cynicism.

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Congress to Bush and Cheney: Do What You Want in Iran

David Bromwich | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics

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David Bromwich

"The process is broken," one of Seymour Hersh's informants told him, "and this is dangerous stuff we're authorizing." Yet the Democrats may think that what they don't know can't hurt them at the polls.

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Unity: Not Exactly Woodstock '69, But Close

Beverly Davis | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home

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Beverly Davis

It's the season premiere 2008 general election campaign. The music will be blaring, the crowd jumping, the loudspeakers booming. But the real story is that Democratic "unity" is well under way.

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McClellan's Inconvenient Truths: Media And GOP Flacks Pile-On

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home

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Beverly Davis

As we are reminded again this week: you don't get in trouble in D.C. for lying, covering up and stonewalling, but you catch hell for telling the truth-- even if it's the least-surprising truth ever.

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Hillary Clinton, 60 Minutes, and the Muslim question

Eric Boehlert | Posted 03.11.2008 | Media

Read More: The New Yorker, Andrea Mitchell, Andrew Sullivan, Harold Meyerson, Steve Kroft, Ryan Lizza, Time Magazine, Barack Obama, Breaking News, Msnbc, Ben Smith, Breaking Political News, Politico, Bob Herbert, New York Times, Youtube, Washington Post, Hillary Clinton, 60 Minutes, Media News
Eric Boehlert

There simply is no other candidate, from either party, who has had their comments, their fragments, dissected so dishonestly the way Hillary Clinton's have been.

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Shelf Life

Carol Hoenig | Posted 02.22.2008 | Media

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Carol Hoenig

The reality is that most books have an ephemeral shelf life.

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Media Manuvers: The New Yorker Profiles Stephen Schwarzman, aka the 8 Billion Dollar Man

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business

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Yvette Kantrow

Stop the presses! Big cheese financial journalist James B. Stewart has weighed in on Steve Schwarzman. In the Feb. 11 issue of The New Yorker, Stewa...

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Diary of an Iraqi ER Doctor Turned Journalist: Where Western Media Could Not Travel

Omer Salih Mahdi | Posted 01.25.2008 | Media

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Omer Salih Mahdi

Once, I asked a manager why they were against the filming in a Baghdad hospital, he answered: "We don't want to expose our dirty laundry, you are a doctor here and you know what I mean."

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The Disgrace at State

George Packer | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Baghdad, The New Yorker, Iraq, George Packer New Yorker, State Department, Politics News
George Packer

In the early years of the war, State was where you found level-headed professionals who knew what a mess the ideologues at the Pentagon and the White House were making in Iraq.

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Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, on Homeland

Jane Ciabattari | Posted 10.09.2007 | Media

Read More: Rushdie Exile, New Yorker Festival 2007, Deborah Triesman, The New Yorker, Orhan Pamuk, The New Yorker Festival, Books, Pamuk Rushdie Homeland, Freedom to Write Arthur Miller Lecture, Authors Homeland, Salman Rushdie, Rushdie PEN, The Satanic Verses, Pen, Media News
Jane Ciabattari

The two groused about being limited in some ways through being required to "represent" their cultures, and being confined to material rooted in their cultures.

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