You’re a smart Jew. You go to a prestige college and hang out with a bunch of cool gentile guys. One of them has a fancy sister. You marry her because you want to be in the cool gang. She turns out to be a vicious anti-Semite, but you can’t face it. Your life is Read More
It took every last ballot they could scrounge up in Virginia last week to lift Democrats, by the slimmest margin possible, to control of the Senate for the first time in four years.
Swelling their ranks in 2008, though, shouldn’t require nearly as much nervous perspiration and nail-biting.
The reason is rooted in math: In Read More
What exactly is wrong with the Republicans?
Today, that question applies not to their rigidly right-wing ideology, nor to their routine betrayal of their rigidly right-wing ideology, nor even to their weird sexual hang-ups and hypocrisy, fascinating as all of those topics may be. Instead, on the day after Election Day, what is at issue Read More
About 7 percent of Virginia’s precincts remain outstanding, with George Allen holding onto a lead of about 17,000 votes over Jim Webb, his Democratic challenger. So where are the uncounted ballots from? The answer is mainly from Prince William and Loudoun Counties in northern Virginia and the city of Richmond. Webb figures to gain some Read More
Stricken with anxiety as the polls continue to indicate a Democratic resurgence, certain Republicans have started spouting justifications and explanations for their party’s possible eviction from office. No matter what may happen on Election Day, they say, the results must not be taken at face value—because liberal Democrats can only prevail by pretending to be Read More
Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner will not run for president in 2008, a senior advisor to his campaign confirmed this morning.
Warner was considered a potential rival to Hillary Clinton when it came to capturing moderate and centrist Democratic voters. Donors and Democratic strategists were intrigued by the idea that, as a southern governor Read More
America’s young drivers are a problem as old as the Christmas gift of a new La Salle given to an entitled tyke in Appointment in Samarra. “The kids knew he was going to get it all along,” John O’Hara wrote. “His mother told him beforehand. He smashed it up New Year’s Eve.”
A third of Read More
America’s young drivers are a problem as old as the Christmas gift of a new La Salle given to an entitled tyke in Appointment in Samarra. “The kids knew he was going to get it all along,” John O’Hara wrote. “His mother told him beforehand. He smashed it up New Year’s Eve.”
It’s always seemed to me that groups that have suffered from discrimination—Jews, women, people of color, for instance—have a special responsibility to speak out on behalf of other groups still suffering from bias. And that Senators from New York State have a special responsibility to take a leadership role in that fight. So ….
I went into the Observer offices yesterday to see my editor. We’re old friends. (Yes, Virginia, it is about who you know). I complimented him for the Sopranos cover of the Observer then I asked him what he was doing on The Da Vinci Code—why it wasn’t in his paper. He said, “Are Read More
