The Reconstruction of Eliot Spitzer: Notes From a Boomlet

Welcome back, Mr. ex-Governor.

This week the Steamroller has been on a roll, writing columns about the financial mess on Slate, appearing to talk about it on national TV and on the radio at WNYC, giving an interview to the Times and floated across a magazine cover as the best next Treasury secretary. That’s all Read More

Slate Editor’s Dream Assignment

Do undecided voters dream of aerial wolf hunts? Slate’s David Plotz sure hopes so.

After a series of disturbing dreams featuring Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, he’s inviting readers to contribute any and all dreams about Ms. Palin.

Here’s his call for entries:

Palin has gripped the American imagination in a way Read More

Power Punk: Jodi Kantor

The Times’ li’l culture czarina; what an audition! what mentors! but where are pieces on Eugene O’Neill?

A year ago, there was a consensus inside and outside The New York Times that Sunday Arts and Leisure was in a major funk-the section was a bore, digestive rather than energetic, let alone contentious. A search Read More