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This Week in Magazines: Sex, Cars, and Malcolm Gladwell

James Warren | Posted 01.07.2009 | Media

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James Warren

If you inexplicably found any of those auto guys arousing in a more primal way, a leading news magazine suggests that "the quality of a man's sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa."

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This Week in Magazines: Tone Deaf Republicans, Rock Stars, and Subprime Wolves

James Warren | Posted 12.24.2008 | Media

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James Warren

It's unclear whether the GOP will convince itself that its panacea is a plug-in hybrid of a politician, and here's a question to jumpstart a boring dinner party: why don't we take perfumes seriously?

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This Week in Magazines: Obama-Mania

James Warren | Posted 12.10.2008 | Media

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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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Obama Has What It Takes (and It's Not What You Think It Is)

Robert Draper | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

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Robert Draper

To me at least, Obama doesn't do that convincing an impression of a socialist. He's much more convincing as Machiavelli.

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This Week in Magazines: Dirty Elections Edition

James Warren | Posted 11.19.2008 | Media

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James Warren

"Mouthwash!" might be a reaction to the hand-wringing over this "nasty" campaign season -- but check out Foreign Policy and the New Yorker. We don't know dirty.

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The New Yorker Wants Palin Elected?

Jerry Weissman | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

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Jerry Weissman

Can it be that the magazine would take this position and do it twice in one issue, the current issue -- the very same issue in which it endorses Barack Obama for president?

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The More Things Change: Norman Mailer and the 1964 Republican Convention

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 11.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: 1964 Civil Rights Act, The New Yorker, Fidel Castro, Barack Obama, 1964 Republican Convention, The New York Times, William F. Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Republican Convention, Norman Mailer, John McCain, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Goldwater lost that election, of course, he lost big, but in later years even the much-hated media would see that convention, and that loss, as the birth of the modern Republican party.

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This Week in Magazines -- Overestimating Ahmadinejad, What Ed Koch Says, and Viagra Loves Golf

James Warren | Posted 11.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, This Week in Magazines, The New Yorker, Amy Adams, Golf Magazine, Vanity Fair, Iran, Health Magazine, Media News
James Warren

The New Yorker profile of Jerome Kerviel may make you want to sell all your stocks and bonds and put them under the bedroom mattress.

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As the Media Changes, So Does My El Commute

Greg Boose | Posted 11.07.2008 | Chicago

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Greg Boose

My morning Brown Line commute has evolved over this past year, and it's not only because I'm now getting on at the Francisco stop rather than squeezing on at Southport.

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This Week in Magazines -- If Palin Read The Economist, Domino's Crack Cocaine

James Warren | Posted 11.05.2008 | Media

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James Warren

Sarah Palin now asserts that she reads The Economist, at least to Fox News Channel. Well, doggone it, if she does peruse the Oct. 4 issue, she'll find a 20-page report on the presidential election.

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David Remnick: A Political Cartoon Won't Change Anyone's Vote

Huffington Post | Posted 10.26.2008 | Media

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New Yorker editor David Remnick recently spoke to his college alumni magazine about political cartoons — and explained that he doesn't believe a...

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Marriage: A Cakewalk

Joyce McFadden | Posted 08.05.2008 | 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 07.25.2008 | Media

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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 07.25.2008 | Media

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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 07.24.2008 | Media

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Tony Hendra

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Breaking: Satire to Sue New Yorker

Steve Young | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

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

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.23.2008 | 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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That New Yorker Cover

Peter Clothier | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

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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 10.01.2009 | Comedy

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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 07.23.2008 | Media

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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 07.22.2008 | Media

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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 07.22.2008 | 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 07.22.2008 | Media

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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 07.22.2008 | 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 07.07.2008 | 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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