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“A serious critique of Glenn Beck is almost a waste of time,” TOM FRANK says. “After all, the man has referred to himself as a ‘rodeo clown’ and a ‘recovering scumbag.’” And yet Beck today has become the most influential man on the right. Tom Frank [...]
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New York Times op-ed columnist GAIL COLLINS traces women’s progress from the fifties to the present, from “My Little Margie” to Hillary for President — and Sarah Palin for Vice President. Gail Collins was the first woman editor of the New York Times editorial page; Her new [...]
“Water found on the moon,” the headlines said – water that “could be used for drinking,” the LA Times reported, possibly enough for “future astronauts to live off the land.” . . .
A modest proposal: forget about sending people to the moon to drink the water there, and instead spend the $3 billion a year [...]
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BOB DYLAN has released a Christmas album! Is this a joke — or a tragedy? SEAN WILENTZ explains — he’s official historian at the official Bob Dylan website (he also teaches American history at Princeton.) READ Sean Wilentz on Dylan’s Xmas album HERE. LISTEN TO [...]
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One year ago, Barack Obama was elected president. Yesterday, Republicans won some off-term elections – are voters telling us something? JOHN NICHOLS comments; he’s Washington correspondent for The Nation, and writes “The Beat” blog at TheNation.com.
The wildly popular “TIJUANA SOUND” of the 1960s, marketed by Herb [...]
It’s being called “the most ambitious commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany”: “The Wall Project” in Los Angeles — and its political message will surprise many. Artists commissioned by the organizers have promised works that draw analogies between the Berlin Wall and the wall the [...]