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Roger Stone and a Spitzer Controversy [updated]

A new Weekly Standard profile of Roger Stone has a suggestive nugget implying that he is still playing a quietly active role in a broad-based anti-Spitzer coalition.

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Did New Republic Soldier-Writer Recant Grisly War Tales?

Last week, New Republic editor Franklin Foer released a statement detailing the results of an internal investigation of columns written by Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, who is stationed in Iraq.  read more »

New Republic Investigates Its Anonymous Baghdad Correspondent

New Republic editor Franklin Foer tells The New York Times today that the magazine is investigating articles written under the pen name Scott Thomas and billed as the magazine's "Baghdad Diarist."

Three articles have been attributed to Thomas in the magazine since February, describing gruesome events in Iraq from the point of view of an American soldier.  read more »

Pro-Life Zealots Ignore Republicans

For the first time in more than 40 years, a Catholic politician is about to be nominated for Preside  read more »

Brooks: Bubeleh in Paradise

In May of this year, The New York Times was in full meltdown over the Jayson Blair scandal.  read more »

It's Kristol Clear: Bill's a Hypocrite

Like an earthquake or explosion that tears away the façade of man-made structures, the fall of Enro  read more »

What McVeigh Was Spared: Prison Barbarism Laid Bare

The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison , by Robert Ellis Gordon and inmates of the Washington Co  read more »

Ruling Class Rebels Get Their Boswell

It looks as if we shall have to speak of a Weekly Standard school of sociology.  read more »

John Podhoretz Leaves Neocon Nest To Play Murdoch's Man in New York

If you had any doubt that New York is challenging Washington as the social and intellectual hub of A  read more »