By Steve Huff 5/06/12 11:09pm

Interviews With Bad Men

J.T. Ready (screengrab)

Homicidal Militia Leader J.T. Ready’s VICE Profile (Video)

On Wednesday May 2, J.T. Ready ended a violent argument in his Arizona home with a rampage. Ready killed his girlfriend, three other adults and a toddler before committing suicide. His actions marked an explosive and tragic end to a colorful career as a cause-hopping rebel who bounced between various extreme social movements using xenophobic and racist rhetoric to grab the spotlight along the way. The Christian Science Monitor goes more in-depth: Read More

By The Editors 1/12/11 1:24am

Editorial

The Issue Is Guns

There is little question that political discourse in the United States in the early 21st century will never be confused with the Lincoln-Douglas debate. Political combatants take an unseemly delight in characterizing opponents as enemies of the state, and reasonably decent public servants can expect to be labeled as pinheads and traitors, puppets of capital Read More

By Molly Fischer 4/30/10 9:15pm

Findings

What We Learned This Week: April 30 Edition

The week sure started strong.

The Journal‘s cheekily named new section — “Greater New York,” that’s some kind of pun, no? — arrived on Monday, followed on Tuesday by a hotly-anticipated Senate appearance for Lloyd Blankfein, Fabulous Fab, and the rest of the Goldman gang. Both were, to be honest, a bit of Read More

By Staff 2/14/07 5:00pm

Elsewhere: Ethics, Snow

Brendan Scott captures the moment when the Chairman of the Assembly’s Ethics Committee decided to vote for the controversial ethics reform bill.

Eliot Spitzer’s appointments so far have not been confirmed by the Republican-controlled state Senate.

The Jewish Press thinks Spitzer is too hard on Sheldon Silver.

The snow storm has Read More

By Staff 8/03/06 8:30am

Thursday: Attack of the Killer Museums (and Monster Condo Spa)!


Atlantic Yards photo of the day (VV)

  • Just what the Upper East Side needs: a 16,000 square foot spa garden–not to mention an 8,000sf “indoor gym”–will open with the new condo at 550 East 72nd. Thanks to an Arizona company named Miraval, this baby will be the largest of its kind in the city. Read More

    • By Sloane Crosley 7/31/06 12:00am

    Cold Stoned! Suburban Ice Cream On the U.W.S.?

    All of us have access to a set of cocktail-party facts that it seems like we were just born knowing. Mine tend to be seasonal. Winter: Snizzle is a kind of slow-falling hail. Autumn: Historically, more serial killers have struck in the fall than any other season. Summer: Ice cream makes you hotter.

    Actually, I Read More

    By Staff 7/25/06 9:12am

    McCain Likes Ted Kennedy, Irish Drinking Jokes

    John McCain was back in town yesterday for a Irish-American event at the New York Yacht Club. Niall Stanage has the details:

    Senator John McCain stored up some ethnic backing for a possible 2008 presidential bid last night, stressing his support for immigration reform – and recounting a story about a pair of drunken Irish Read More

    By Charles Taylor 7/17/06 12:00am

    Stagecoach: Is There Such A Thing as an Anti-Western?

    Stagecoach is to American movies what The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is to American literature. It’s a work deep in the national character, and, like Huck Finn, its meaning is often taken to be its exact opposite. John Ford’s 1939 western, the story of a thrown-together band of travelers braving an Arizona stage ride through Read More

    By Jason Horowitz 7/03/06 12:00am

    Schumer Attack: Chuck Calls ’06 All About Bush

    “We have to win,” said Senator Charles Schumer, banging a table with his fist at a diner close to his Park Slope home on Monday morning. “You have got to be strong and focused. If you get thrown off course, you lose.”

    Like Atlas with a drab tie and a Brooklyn accent, Mr. Schumer carries Read More