By Drew Grant 8/17/12 3:02pm

Progresssive PR Wreck

A Facebook post is worth a thousand words (Progressive's FB)

The Power of Tumblr: Progressive Insurance Reaches Settlement With Fisher Family

Previously: [Comedian Matt Fisher Claims Sister’s Progressive Insurance Paid for Her Killer’s Lawyers]

[Update: Progressive Auto-Tweets to ‘Killer’ Claim, Matt Fisher Shoots Back]

Never underestimate the power of internet shaming! Not five days after New York comedian Matt Fisher recounted the tragic story of his sister’s fatal car accident and her auto insurance company that went so far as to intervene on behalf of the defendant in court to avoid paying out the premium on her policy, Progressive has agreed to pony up the entire amount due to the Fisher family. Read More

By Drew Grant 8/15/12 1:22pm

Crimes

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Update: Progressive Auto-Tweets to ‘Killer’ Claim, Matt Fisher Shoots Back

Read: Comedian Matt Fisher Claims Sister’s Progressive Insurance Paid for Her Killer’s Lawyer

The media has picked up the torch of New York comedian Matt Fisher, whose family has been battling Progressive Insurance since his sister was killed in a car crash in 2010. According to Mr. Fisher’s Tumblr posting, his sister’s insurance company actually got its lawyer to defend the driver at fault for the accident, just so it wouldn’t have to pay out her policy to the grieving family.

Yesterday, Progressive responded by auto-tweeting this statement to people who wrote about Progressive on Twitter: Read More

By Steve Kornacki 2/13/08 5:04am

McCain Wins, But Anti-McCain Voters Have Their Say

There were 116 total delegates at stake in the Republican presidential race tonight, and John McCain has apparently won all of them—terrific news for a candidate who began the day about 400 delegates shy of the magic number needed to clinch the nomination.

And two of his primary wins were by convincing margins—in Maryland, where Read More

By Steve Kornacki 2/13/08 4:29am

This Time, Obama Wins the Hillary Voters Too

The losing streak has hit eight for Hillary Clinton, but that’s hardly the worst news to come out of Chesapeake Tuesday for the former first lady.

Nor is the fact that she now trails in most every independent delegate count—even the counts that include the non-binding pledges of superdelegates. And nor, for that matter, is Read More

By Niall Stanage 2/13/08 4:22am

Celebrating Victories, McCain Mocks Obama

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—John McCain just rounded off his victory speech here by cheekily appropriating one of Barack Obama’s signature lines.

“I promise you I am fired up and ready to go,” he told a cheering crowd.

The Arizona senator’s speech seemed to target Obama more than Clinton, in yet another sign of the shifting dynamics of Read More

By Steve Kornacki 2/13/08 12:10am

Huckabee Makes Things Close, Hillary Doesn't

Signs point to a very long night for Hillary Clinton. Polls are still open in Maryland and in the District of Columbia, but they have just closed in Virginia—and news outlets have already declared Barack Obama the winner by a wide margin.

Virginia was Clinton’s best chance of scoring an upset victory, or at least Read More

By Steve Kornacki 2/12/08 12:51am

The Potomac Stakes: Hillary Must Limit the Damage, McCain Can Put It Away

Here’s what’s at stake in today’s primary contests:

Democrats

Barack Obama is supposed to go three-for-three on the day. Short of engineering an upset victory—which would represent a campaign-changing development—Hillary Clinton’s best hope lies in containing her opponent’s victory margins and keeping the delegate race close, possibly positioning her to declare some kind of moral Read More

By Ted Widmer 3/12/07 12:00am

The House Of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

I felt that I knew Arthur long before I actually met him, because of his books. Grad school was a bit of a wasteland, and I searched in vain for history books that would truly illuminate the past, with vivid writing, sharp observations and that rarest of all academic elements: humor. I found all three Read More

By Moira Hodgson 10/16/06 12:00am

A High Rollers' Meat Market Only Does It Medium Well

How do you like your steak? Corn-fed or grass-fed? Grilled or roasted? Aged 28, 42 or 56 days? Wagyu? Grade 6 or grade 11?

When I made my first visit to celebrity chef Tom Colicchio’s mega-restaurant in the meatpacking district, there were two dozen categories of steak on the menu. The options have since Read More

By Moira Hodgson 10/16/06 12:00am

A High Rollers’ Meat Market Only Does It Medium Well

How do you like your steak? Corn-fed or grass-fed? Grilled or roasted? Aged 28, 42 or 56 days? Wagyu? Grade 6 or grade 11?

When I made my first visit to celebrity chef Tom Colicchio’s mega-restaurant in the meatpacking district, there were two dozen categories of steak on the menu. The options have since been Read More