Connecticut
When I read the solution offered by Wayne LaPierre, the CEO of the National Rifle Association, to the ever-growing number of massacres at schools—that we need “good guys” with guns to protect us from “bad guys” with guns—I initially thought he was joking, a bad joke, yet joking nonetheless. READ MORE >>
An "Enlightened" Mike White Wants to Change TV
The Public Won't Force Congress to Pass Gun Control
Inside the NRA's Zany Press Conference
Reporters scribble, cameras click, protesters remonstrate, counter-protesters counter-remonstrate: There’s nothing like an embattled-Washington-political-figure-press-conference to brighten up a pre-holiday Friday. And when the political figure in question is advocating that massive new numbers of citizens be armed with guns, the drama is all the more dramatic. READ MORE >>
A Guide to the NRA's Crazy Press Conference on School Violence
Borking Around
Some writers get the stories they deserve. Hunter Thompson got the Angels. Tom Wolfe got the Pranksters. Sy Hersh got My Lai. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein got Watergate. Robert Caro got Moses and LBJ. Kate Boo got Annawadi. I got the Bork tapes. READ MORE >>
