Todays's society is more honest, more open, more accepting of people's differences -- more tolerant, in a word. With one exception, and that exception is the military.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh recently told Think Progress that a recent meeting in Vice President Cheney's office on the t...
New York Post | Keith Kelly | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media
The controversial July 21 cover of The New Yorker portraying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a Muslim has been a virtual sellout on ...
Jerry Weissman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media
One more cartoon deserves mention: Walt Handlesman's view on how a prototypical New Yorker reader ..."Urbane! ... Abstract!" ...views the cover is spot on. Check it out.
Robert Koehler | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media
The moral perspective of the New Yorker cover was buried at the bottom of the table of contents on page two -- fiendishly understated, you might say.
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
The media's self-censoring is not reverse racism. It's just racism. If only "positive" views of Obama are allowed, it's only because we believe he needs protection.
Laura Flanders | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media
If Vanity Fair's cartoonist wanted to flip the New Yorker cover on the GOP, they'd have to portray the media's lies about the candidate. Not the true stuff.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
Do reporters like John McCain better? Can Captain Straight Talk Express even complain? And should Obama sidestep his rep as the Anointed One?
Bart Motes | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
All of us, including Barack Obama, should hope that the Obama campaign did not snub Ryan Lizza, not only because of what it would tell us about Obama, but because of what Lizza is capable of telling us.
Vanity Fair | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
We here at Vanity Fair maintain a kind of affectionate rivalry with our downstairs neighbors at The New Yorker. We play softball every year, compete f...
Jillian York | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home
"We Palestinians and Arab Americans have to look at this race carefully... McCain is so dangerous for us and his ideas are so malicious. So, let's pick the less worse of the two: Let's endorse Obama."
John Tomasic | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home
Last week a whole new crop of OTB citizen journalists / commentators weighed in the New Yorker cover featuring the Obamas as a terrorist First Couple....
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
Shouldn't the New Yorker now give equal time to the factors that could likewise define the McCain campaign -- his one-ness with the incumbent, his age, his unbalanced temper, his misogyny?
Charlie Rose | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
I talked to Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, about the magazine's controversial cover of Barack and Michelle Obama.
Jeff Danziger | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
Irshad Manji | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
In shocking people with so many fierce images at once, the New Yorker has handed Barack Obama an opportunity to score three timely campaign victories.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
In this week's Wilshire & Washington show, Dr. Karen North stops by to talk about online engagement and how the user-made anti-FISA group on My.BarackObama.com is the way of the future.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
On Tuesday's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart took on the media and Barack Obama for overreacting to, and thus validating, the New Yorker cover controversy. ...
Garrett Socol | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home
Personally, I do not care if my president is Christian, Jewish, Lutheran, follows Confucianism, Hindu, Taoist, Presbyterian, Chinese Universalist or an Atheist......and neither should you.
Sam Greenfield | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
I understand the satiric tone of the cartoon, and I would think that in a world blessed with a sense of humor, it would be a non-issue. Sadly, we do not have the same sense of humor we used to.
Lucy Carrigan | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
We are all terrified, plain and simple, that somehow the right-wing smear campaign will succeed in defeating our candidate. We are the ones who have become... not stupid, but scared-stupid and irrational.
236.com | 23/6: The News, But Funnier | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
In light of the controversy surrounding this week's New Yorker cover, we wanted get some insight from an insider at the notoriously tight-lipped publi...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
The great danger is that the lies and maliciousness the Obama slander sites busily fan could or has had some resonance with some voters, especially the much fought-over independents.
Jackson Williams | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
Whose "problem" is it? It's certainly not the New Yorker's problem, or fault. After all, they're the ones making fun of all the right-wing claptrap that's being spread about Obama.
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
What is it with educated elites in our major urban cultural institutions? Where are their heads? What country are they living in?
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Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics