For decades, Paul Gigot has cast a long shadow over American conservatism, first as a columnist and now as editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal. Soon, his shadow will loom over Central Park, as well, as the opinion journalist has just bought a two-bedroom co-op near the top of 4 East 95th Read More
The Observer has learned that The Wall Street Journal will launch a weekly book review within the next few weeks. The Journal has never had a standalone book review before, and creating one now flies in the face of ever-dwindling book coverage in papers across the country.
The book review will be a pull-out section Read More
Karl Rove’s resignation is easily the biggest news story today, and it broke first in the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
Typically, such news might appear on A1, in the right hand column. Instead, Mr. Rove’s anticipated date of departure—by the end of August—was reported on A15, in the sixth Read More
Karl Rove is leaving the White House—and announced his exit in an exclusive interview with Wall Street Journal editorial-page editor Paul Gigot this morning.
From the news article the paper ran to tease the Gigot column:
Mr. Rove, who has held a senior post in the White House since President Bush took office in Read More
The Wall Street Journal news staff can live with occasional opposition from the paper’s editorial page. What it can’t live with is the editorial page’s support.
“People feel like we’re walking around with knives in our backs,” one news staffer said. “We rely on our editors to stick up for us. There’s really a Read More
During the nation’s last great political crisis, Republican politicians and pundits repeated a certain phrase over and over again, as if they were droning their guru’s favorite mantra. Whenever anyone thought to question their zeal for impeachment, they would draw themselves up and intone those four righteous words: “the rule of law .”
Just how Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
