Why Is This Man Laughing?

The New York Times Magazine cover is the Charlize Theron of magazine publishing: Famous people become ugly in the name of art.

Former Virginia governor and centrist Democratic Presidential hopeful Mark Warner learned the dangers of posing for The Times Magazine this week when he landed on the cover, photographed by Alexei Hay.

A sallow Read More

Denise O’Donnell?

A feature of the race for Attorney General, dominated as it is by two well-known guys, Andrew and Mark, is that there might be room up the middle for a third candidate to slip through. That, at least, is what the five other people in the race are hoping.

The one who, in a superficial Read More

The Slightly Loony Andy Rooney

On the evening of Nov. 27, a small, stately crowd that included the entire 60 Minutes gang assembled at the Museum of Television & Radio to celebrate “An Evening with Andy Rooney.” The soirée kicked off with a subdued cocktail hour up in the Edward and Patricia McLaughlin Library, where the party-goers’ venerable visages were Read More

Janet Reno Fumbles Again

With the pre-dawn Miami raid now etched in the minds of citizens around the world, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno is on the defensive. Some say that by sending in a pack of armed Federal agents, she crossed American lines of decency and traumatized six-year-old Elián González forever. Others argue that she was left with Read More

Reno Bashers Forget How Waco Started

You don’t have to believe that Vince Foster was murdered or that the Pentagon shot down Trans World Airlines Flight 800 to wonder what exactly went wrong during the Federal assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Tex., six years ago and the subsequent investigation. A new and independent probe is warranted, if only Read More