Ankush Khardori

By Ankush I should’ve taken Charles Kaiser’s advice and skipped Andrew Sullivan’s cover story for The Atlantic, about how Barack Obama is the second coming of Christ. It is a stunningly bad piece of work — reductive, overwrought, bloated, and, perhaps above all, patronizing. The setup doubles as an example of numerous overblown passages in […]

By Ankush Vivian Aplin-Brownlee, part of the first small wave of African-American women to work their way up through major newspapers, died a week ago. The Washington Post obituary is a nice tribute to her work (and includes a really lovely picture of her, as well). Aplin-Brownlee was an editor at the Post when Janet […]

By Ankush Joe Nocera’s weekly, reported columns for the Times Business section are usually quite good. But every once in while, things go weirdly awry, and the normally sensible Nocera reveals an odd penchant for contrarianism. A few months ago, it was his column on Jeffrey Sachs, whose impressive efforts to eradicate malaria and reduce […]

By Ankush Ioften take it for granted that physical newspapers will one day be adistant memory. Newspapers will continue to survive — fewer perhaps,and with a different sense of purpose in an age of constantly updated,on-demand news — but the age of newsprint will one day come to a close. And would that be so […]

By Ankush After Wayne Barrett’s (latest) takedown of Rudy Giuliani came out a few weeks ago, there was some talk about how the piece might have had a greater impact if it had run somewhere besides The Village Voice. This week Time runs its version of the Giuliani bubble-burster, and the results, while not nearly […]

By Ankush I don’t mean to needlessly prolong this discussion about the state ofnewspapers, but, from my perspective at least, just a few more pointsare in order — which, lazily, I’ll present in bullet-form. Everyone agrees that specialization — for smaller papers, localization — is the best way for newspapers to thrive. We shouldn’t obscure […]

By Ankush I’m not quite sure what point Isaac Chotiner is trying to get at here, but I do wish he would just get on with it and tell us what he finds so strange about the Edwards’ behavior in the article about them in the Journal today rather than subject us to his deliberately […]

By Ankush I don’t have anything particularly meaningful to say about it, but this story — which relays how Al Gore was able to get an advance copy of the closely-guarded series finale to The Sopranos — is pretty neat.