The New New Media
At the end of the fossil fuel era, America's premier journalism schools have staked out their place in the Digital Age. It's called News21, and it provides what may be the best multimedia coverage of the election season.
If Sharks Could Use E-Mail
As the nation’s financial crisis continues, an ugly question rears its head every now and again: Is someone…
The Watchdogs of Academia
A call on the professorial classes to help check abuses of governmental power. And to start confronting the Alberto Gonzaleses of the world — before they wreak havoc.
Group Thinkers Miss an Original on Truth Commission
It’s always interesting to watch Beltway insiderism at work, so you might want to take a look at…
Truth With Consequences
Why both political parties should support a truth commission on the human rights abuses of the war on terror
Over the Horizon
A new British book, "Flat Earth News," provides a well-researched answer to the age-old question: Why are the news media so dumb?
New Study: Wonks Most Dangerous at Full Moon
Certainly, there are trials and tribulations to the academic career, particularly during the end-of-semester hell many professors are now suffering. But there are perks, too, including the "ten benefits that emanate from the promotion to full professor" enumerated by Daniel W. Drezner, professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. (Tip of the hat to the Atlantic's Megan McArdle.)
Desperation Defined: Quoting the American Spectator
Did the Clinton campaign really use a disgraced right-wing magazine from the '90s to go after Obama?
Why Miller-McCune and Why Now?
Noted journalist James Fallows helps us explain our new magazine and Web site.