Where Have You Gone, Ed Murrow? – The New York Sun
The news industry is in chaos. Newspaper circulation is nose-diving. The reign of the iconic network anchors ended over the last 12 months. “Nightline” as we know it will end its 25-year run tonight....
View ArticleBush, TR, and the Road to 2008 – The New York Sun
Sometimes you need to look back to get a sense of where you’re going. With his administration settling into late middle age and the Republican Party staring nervously at mid-term elections, President...
View ArticleWhere Is King of the Middle East? – The New York Sun
Where are the Martin Luther Kings of the Middle East? In a land where millennia-old resentments routinely erupt into violence, the selective amnesia about the more recent example of Martin Luther King...
View ArticleMorality And the Deficit – The New York Sun
Budgets are ultimately moral documents. They establish our priorities and reveal our values. Despite a brief flirtation with fiscal responsibility in the 1990s, for most of the past several decades our...
View ArticleBuy Danish – The New York Sun
As Danish embassies come under attack around the world in misplaced retaliation for the four-month old decision by a Danish newspaper to publish satirical cartoons of Islam’s prophet, Mohammed, it is a...
View ArticlePost-Katrina Mardi Gras – The New York Sun
When the guy rolling the giant wooden cross down Bourbon Street passed the “Pimps and Ho’s” party on the balcony of the Hustler Club, you knew that juxtaposition-rich New Orleans was getting back to...
View ArticleThe Fight for Redistricting Reform – The New York Sun
Redistricting reform: the wonkishness of the term alone causes some folks to fall asleep – as it apparently did to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who reportedly face-planted on her desk for 15 minutes...
View ArticleKadima Shows Strength Of the Center – The New York Sun
The centrist Kadima Party’s victory on Tuesday sent shock waves through Israeli politics by relegating the conservative Likud to fifth place in the Knesset, down from winning 38 seats in 2003 to just...
View ArticleWould Goldwater Leave? – The New York Sun
Washington – Would Barry Goldwater be a Republican today? It’s a question that might have been considered sacrilegious even a decade ago. But as the Republican Party searches for its soul, post-Tom...
View Article‘West Wing’ Bows Out – The New York Sun
At a time when the TV show “American Idol” garners greater levels of voter participation than actual American elections, there is reason to question whether the entertainment industry adds much civic...
View ArticleHamptons West – the Rockaways Renaissance – The New York Sun
At the height of summer, as New Yorkers try to find the nearest faraway place to beat the heat and relax on the beach, it’s startling to realize that the largely forgotten Rockaways were once the...
View ArticleTwo Years On We’ve Kept The Faith – The New York Sun
We swore that we would never forget: the thunder and shudder of the towers coming down; funeral after funeral, our hearts shattered; searing image after searing image, our souls scarred. Now, two years...
View ArticleOur City, Indivisible – The New York Sun
Look around our city this September 11 and realize that which does not kill us makes us stronger. Now, three years after the worst day in our history, we are perhaps ready to reflect on what would have...
View ArticleU2 Showed the Relevance of Rock Music – NY Sun
One year ago, New Yorkers were still walking around in a haze: unmoored internally, rocked by shock, anger, disbelief, and despair. The days were surreal but they were not silent – music helped see us...
View ArticleFrom Katrina To Sept.11 – The New York Sun
The devastation of the city of New Orleans hangs inescapably over the fourth anniversary of September 11. The suddenness of the destruction, the shattering of old assumptions, the assimilation of...
View ArticleWhere Have You Gone, Ed Murrow? – The New York Sun
The news industry is in chaos. Newspaper circulation is nose-diving. The reign of the iconic network anchors ended over the last 12 months. “Nightline” as we know it will end its 25-year run tonight....
View ArticleBush, TR, and the Road to 2008 – The New York Sun
Sometimes you need to look back to get a sense of where you’re going. With his administration settling into late middle age and the Republican Party staring nervously at mid-term elections, President...
View ArticleWhere Is King of the Middle East? – The New York Sun
Where are the Martin Luther Kings of the Middle East? In a land where millennia-old resentments routinely erupt into violence, the selective amnesia about the more recent example of Martin Luther King...
View ArticleMorality And the Deficit – The New York Sun
Budgets are ultimately moral documents. They establish our priorities and reveal our values. Despite a brief flirtation with fiscal responsibility in the 1990s, for most of the past several decades our...
View ArticleBuy Danish – The New York Sun
As Danish embassies come under attack around the world in misplaced retaliation for the four-month old decision by a Danish newspaper to publish satirical cartoons of Islam’s prophet, Mohammed, it is a...
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