Libya: "United States is moving swiftly to hand command to allies in Europe, American officials said." [NY Times]
Libya: Editors question leadership and "objective" of the mission there. [NY Times]
Libya: "[T]he nations have not really defined what they hope to achieve." [David Brooks]
Libya: Editors say critic Rep. Nadler has a point. [NY Read More
Bloomberg weighs in on the national labor fight taking place in Wisconsin, with his middle-of-the-way approach:
If contract terms or labor laws from years past no longer make sense, we the people should renegotiate — or legislate — changes. Benefits agreed to 35 years ago that now are unaffordable should be reduced. Similarly, work Read More
The way Charlie Rangel interprets the events in Wisconsin, Republicans would like to get rid of unions altogether.
"There's no question about it," Rangel told Brother Bill from the Voice of Harlem. "This is not been the first time that we had heard that the Teabag Party--or the Tea Party--rather and some of the Republicans Read More
What does Chuck Schumer know about Wisconsin?
A lot, apparently. Or so he says. New York's senior senator, who rarely misses a chance to play the populist card, has seized on the fiscal crisis in Madison to raise his profile and a few campaign dollars as well. Mr. Schumer recently sent a mass email to supporters Read More
“Let’s get real,” she said in a Hunter College auditorium that seemed to be packed mostly with the middle-aged women who make up her base. “Let’s get real about this election. Read More
Faced with an opportunity in Wisconsin to halt her devastating post-Super Tuesday skid and to head into the critical March 4 primaries with newfound confidence and momentum, the former First Lady came up short tonight. Very short.
Barack Obama’s decisive victory in Wisconsin—where just six percent of the Read More
Hillary Clinton
This is the last chance Clinton will have to avoid heading into March 4 on a 10-contest losing streak. Certainly, she is vastly better-positioned here than in any of the states she's lost since Super Tuesday. Most polls show her trailing Barack Obama, but only by Read More
Now, five weeks later, the vultures are back. She's lost eight straight contests since Super Tuesday and most pundits have penciled her in for two more next Tuesday, in Wisconsin and Hawaii. And Read More
New Hampshire native Alan Natkiel, 31, will open Georgia's East Side Barbecue at 192 Orchard Street in mid-May. Mr. Natkiel signed the lease on the Lower East Side space a few days ago, according to Misrahi Realty. Georgia's East Side Barbecue will serve "classic Southern food like barbecue, hamburgers and hot dogs," according to Mr. Read More
I was in Sacramento, looking at microfilm. Since Thucydides, most of the great war stories have started with these very words. It was early May 2005. The stuff on the microfilm was really good, and I was running behind for the dinner I had planned with my parents, a quick stop in the Bay Area Read More
I was in Sacramento, looking at microfilm. Since Thucydides, most of the great war stories have started with these very words.
It was early May 2005. The stuff on the microfilm was really good, and I was running behind for the dinner I had planned with my parents, a quick stop in the Bay Area Read More
The line between painting and sculpture blurs when the layers of paint pile up, scratching the third dimension, protruding into our world. And there’s a kind of prose impasto, too: Layers of expository brushstroke, heaped with coats of consciousness and memory, cause literary characters to protrude, to extend into the world of the now. Ward Read More
Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center is a spectacular film about New York City, how it wakes up before dawn every day, how millions of people find their way into the city every day—and how it all came to a stop on Sept. 11, 2001. After so much talk about how and why the attacks took Read More
This immigration business is giving the country a split personality, true political schizophrenia. Everybody is divided in weirdly unforeseen ways on what’s right and what’s wrong and what do we do about it. Even “The Star-Spangled Banner”—Spanish version—has split people who ordinarily cleave together. The President hates it, but his Secretary of State finds it Read More
This immigration business is giving the country a split personality, true political schizophrenia. Everybody is divided in weirdly unforeseen ways on what’s right and what’s wrong and what do we do about it. Even “The Star-Spangled Banner”—Spanish version—has split people who ordinarily cleave together. The President hates it, but his Secretary of State finds it Read More
