Ever notice that the NYTimes.com most-emailed list is slanted toward an older demographic? Maybe because only folks over a certain age—like our Aunt Mabel—still use the email tool. Here’s a quick, annotated guide to what grandma and grandpa thought you might be interested in from NYTimes.com …
An Observation: Aunt Mabel really couldn’t care less Read More
Ever noticed that the NYT most emailed list is slanted toward, well, an older demographic? Maybe because only folks over a certain age—like our Aunt Mabel—still use the email tool! Here’s a quick, annotated guide to what grandma and grandpa read in the paper (and sent to you!) over the weekend. We read it so you Read More
Author Barbara Ehrenreich appeared on The Colbert Report last night to promote her book, This Land Is Their Land and offered a rallying cry for class warriors the world over. "I’m fighting back," she said. "But the other side started the war."
"We’ve had too many employers, say like Wal-Mart, who’ve made huge amounts Read More
After wasting lazy days on a porch in the Berkshires, drinking gin and reading the
The Daily News offers a bit of comparison shopping between the Duke Semans mansion ($50 million) and a single-family home in Staten Island ($164,900). One has a sweeping staircase, while the other lets you live near Read More
How hard is it, Katha Pollitt asked in The Nation last month, to hire female columnists? “How hard can it be to ‘find’ Barbara Ehrenreich … Dahlia Lithwick … Sharon Lerner … Debra Dickerson?”
“Here’s the monkey wrench,” said Ms. Dickerson, author of The End of Blackness. “The New York Times had me in contention Read More
