“There aren’t many dissenters in the room,” said another young man at the party Monday night for Steven Brill’s new book, Class Warfare, about education reform in the United States. The young man, blond, worked with one of the schooling organizations celebrated in the book.
“But, us two,” he continued to The Observer. “We’re certainly Read More
In Jeffrey Toobin’s profile of Chuck Schumer in last week’s New Yorker (subscription only), the senior U.S. senator from New York, an anti-”anti-business liberal,” says his only major asset is his Park Slope apartment.
The story goes that in 1982, when Mr. Schumer was a state congressman, he and his wife, Read More
The New York Times this morning offers a look into Elena Kagan’s time as dean of Harvard Law and reveals–in the headline, no less–that she was ambitious. Spoiler alert?
Kagan’s ambition is, of course, one of the few things that is known about her, and the anecdote of her Read More
Amid the recent news of CNN’s rough first quarter, there’s been much speculation about what CNN U.S. chief Jon Klein should do to revitalize the cable news network’s line up. On Wednesday, (soon to be former) Politico reporter Michael Calderone polled everyone from Phil Donahue to Aaron Brown Read More
“I’m pretty nervous,” said Melissa Lafsky, a now formerly anonymous blogger who this week joins the ranks of those who have come out to become a public commodity. “I’ve been planning this for months”—she paused—“not actually, but running through the scenario in my head: ‘What would happen if I put my name on this? Would Read More
“I’m pretty nervous,” said Melissa Lafsky, a now formerly anonymous blogger who this week joins the ranks of those who have come out to become a public commodity. “I’ve been planning this for months”—she paused—“not actually, but running through the scenario in my head: ‘What would happen if I put my name on this? Would Read More
David Lat, the blogger behind the dishy judicial gossip site Underneath Their Robes, is moving to Washington, D.C., to be a writer for Wonkette.
Mr. Lat pens the Latin-laced blog under the pseudonym “Article III Groupie” (an homage to the section of the Constitution that established the federal judiciary). In November, Read More
Exactly one year ago, in the corridors of a county office
building in downtown Miami, a gang
of imported Republican operatives tried to shove history toward George W. Bush.
On the day before Thanksgiving 2000, the event described approvingly by the
gentleman who now oversees the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal
as a Read More
In journalistic circles, much has been made of alleged errors in A Vast Conspiracy , Jeffrey Toobin’s excellent account of the Clinton impeachment follies. Certain people rejoiced after Newsweek ‘s Michael Isikoff recently demanded and won a few corrections in future editions of the Toobin book.
Next came Susan Schmidt of The Washington Post Read More
A Vast Conspiracy , by Jeffrey Toobin. Random House, 422 pages, $25.95.
Where were you when President Clinton was impeached? Or when he was acquitted? Can you believe that you’ve not only forgotten, but that the whole ugly thing ended just a year ago?
Jeffrey Toobin recalls it all, and in A Vast Conspiracy Read More
