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Paid article The Scrapbook
THE SCRAPBOOK A Surcharge on the Charge, Sir If there’s one modern pricing phenomenon The Scrapbook loathes, it’s the add-on surcharge—a deceptive little proviso in the consumer/serviceprovider...
Paid article Murray Kempton at 100
CASUAL Murray Kempton at 100 The occasion of Murray Kempton’s centenary—he was born December 16, 1917—has attracted little attention. As a columnist for the New York Post and later Newsday he...
Paid article Editorials
EDITORIALS Good News, for Now Despite the best efforts of the president and the Republican National Committee, voters in Alabama didn’t elect a man credibly accused of sexual predation to the U.S....
Paid article Who's to Blame for the Moore Fiasco?
Mccormack, John
Who’s to Blame for the Moore Fiasco? Start to finish, there’s enough to go around. by John McCormack For a Republican to lose the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions one year after Donald Trump...
Paid article While Truth Puts On Its Shoes
HEMINGWAY, MARK
While Truth Puts On Its Shoes The media’s reign of error. by Mark Hemingway Covering the Trump presidency has not always been the media’s finest hour, but even grading on that curve, the month of...
Paid article Exits, Graceful and Otherwise
WARREN, MICHAEL
Exits, Graceful and Otherwise Early departures from Team Trump. by Michael Warren Washington was surprised to learn that Dina Powell, the deputy national security adviser for strategy, will be...
Paid article Wisconsin, the Surveillance State
Schneider, Christian
Wisconsin, the Surveillance State The ‘John Doe’ scandal widens. by Christian Schneider On May 23, the Wisconsin Department of Justice (Wis-DOJ) received a call from the state’s ethics board. An...
Paid article Is the Electoral College Doomed?
Guelzo, Allen C.
Is the Electoral College Doomed? Let’s hope not. by Allen C. Guelzo Every four years we elect a president. And every four years someone emits a squeak of protest that the method we use for...
Paid article Don't Let the Parties Off the Hook
COST, JAY
Don’t Let the Parties Off the Hook Along with the voters, they deserve blame for lousy candidates. by Jay Cost In the wake of Democrat Doug Jones’s surprise win over Republican Roy Moore in the...
Paid article A President Has No Friends
TERZIAN, PHILIP
A President Has No Friends Trump is far from the first to have no close pals. by Philip Terzian Frank Bruni had an interesting column the other day in the New York Times. Naturally, it was about...
Paid article The Man They Love to Hate
BARNES, FRED
The Man They Love to Hate EPA administrator Scott Pruitt's recipe for success: fearless defiance of his political and media foes By Fred Barnes Every Sunday evening, the press office at the...
Paid article Deceptive Déjà Vu
GERECHT, REUEL MARC; Dubowitz, Mark
Deceptive Déjà Vu Defending the Iran deal by lying about the Iraq war By Reuel Marc Gerecht & Mark Dubowitz In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the...
Paid article Rock-and-Roll Editor
FERGUSON, ANDREW
Rock-and-Roll Editor From counterculture to establishment. by Andrew Ferguson Joe Hagan has written what promises to be the standard biography of Jann Wenner—standard, because it’s hard to imagine...
Paid article Eternal Capital
COHEN, ERIC
Eternal Capital Jerusalem, the city of Jewish longing, in intellectual and literary life. by Eric Cohen In a March 2016 speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy...
Paid article Devil's Ball
YOUNG, CATHY
Devil’s Ball Fifty years of The Master and Margarita. by Cathy Young Nearly half a century ago, when I was a preschooler in Soviet-era Moscow, two thick magazines appeared in our home. They had...
Paid article Hour of Kneed
PODHORETZ, JOHN
Hour of Kneed The ice maiden of the ’90s skating scandal. by John Podhoretz The propulsively entertaining but problematic new movie I, Tonya reminds us that it’s been nearly a quarter-century...
Paid article Crown of Duty
Kantor, Elizabeth
Crown of Duty Netflix’s Queen Elizabeth bioseries stresses the weight of responsibility. BY Elizabeth Kantor The second season of the Netflix show The Crown, released on December 8, is...
Paid article Parody
“Hot takes aren’t really USA Today’s thing, but the newspaper’s editorial board delivered a pillar of fire to hotel rooms across the country Wednesday. Writing about President Trump’s sexually...
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