Rachel Maddow
The Aimless Career of James Carter IV
Rachel Maddow’s War, the New Travel Memoir, and the Failure of Hip-Hop: Today’s TNR Reader
Editor’s Note: We’ll be running the article recommendations of our friends at TNR Reader each afternoon on The Plank, just in time to print out or save for your commute home. Enjoy! In a culture of blurbs and bytes, Katharine Boo’s pieces keep getting longer. The art of deep reporting is her calling. Columbia Journalism Review | 6 min (1,403 words) READ MORE >>
Specks of War
No, You Can't Always Get Birth Control Pills for $9
Here’s one thing the controversy over health insurance and contraception has taught us: Conservative men need to learn a thing or two about reproductive health. READ MORE >>
Over-Rated Thinkers
Welcome to TNR’s 2011 list issue. Yesterday we named the most powerful, least famous people in Washington. Today’s installment: DC’s most over-rated thinkers. READ MORE >>
Daily Deadline: Rachel Maddow, Not Overrated
What Has Obama Done, Anyway?
When I read this quote, from a New York Observer story about disillusioned pro-Obama hipsters... Mr. Mahfouda said that the flag is now in his living room and hasn’t been unfurled in over a year. There are no immediate plans to bring it back out again for 2012. “My intuitive response is that [Obama] hasn’t done a ton,” he said. “He hasn’t really rocked the boat too much.” READ MORE >>
In the Margins
Liberal Despair And the Cult Of The Presidency
I've been writing for several months about the curious sense of disappointment afflicting liberals READ MORE >>
