Marriage: A Cakewalk
As we learn from those in the public eye, couples can come undone no matter how together they look from the outside.
As we learn from those in the public eye, couples can come undone no matter how together they look from the outside.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
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.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
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."
Tony Hendra | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
Steve Young | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
"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.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
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.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
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.
Elizabeth Ross | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home
How about a good old fashioned grassroots boycott to get our point across to the New Yorker?
Peter Clothier | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
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.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
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.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
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.
Bob Cesca | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
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.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
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.
John McQuaid | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
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.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
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.
David Bromwich | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics
"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.
Beverly Davis | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home
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.
Beverly Davis | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home
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.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 03.11.2008 | Media
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.
Carol Hoenig | Posted 02.22.2008 | Media
The reality is that most books have an ephemeral shelf life.
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business
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...
Omer Salih Mahdi | Posted 01.25.2008 | Media
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."
George Packer | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics
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.
Jane Ciabattari | Posted 10.09.2007 | Media
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Joyce McFadden | Posted 07.28.2008 | Style