WEISBERG’S FAULTY LOGIC. Jacob Weisberg‘s new piece on Al Gore in Slate is simultaneously terrific and infuriating. On the one hand, he makes some of the same criticisms I made about the movie (its irritating excessive focus on Gore’s personal journey and its refusal to discuss how and why the Clinton administration didn’t do more […]
Ben Adler
Ben Adler is a senior editor at City & State NY. He previously worked for Politico, The Nation, and Reuters, and he has written for The Washington Post and The New Republic, among other publications.
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AN OFF-BEAT ARGUMENT…
AN OFF-BEAT ARGUMENT FOR D.C. STATEHOOD. File this one under more evidence of the Bush administration’s cynical politicization of what should be apolitical national security issues. Whenever public pressure to actually protect the homeland wanes, the administration seems to find out a way to subvert security. Today, for instance, The Washington Post reports: The Department […]
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SO NOW IT’S…
SO NOW IT’S SAFE. Within hours of Ken Lay‘s and Jeff Skilling‘s guilty verdicts coming down, the MSM had begun to form their inane analysis. No less a barometer of conventional wisdom than Newsweek‘s Howard Fineman wrote: If you want a date to mark the beginning of the end of the Bush Era in American […]
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Blowing Smoke
On its opening weekend in Washington, Thank You for Smoking, the new movie based on Christopher Buckley’s novel, played to sold-out houses on multiple screens at the Lowes Cineplex in Georgetown. Smoking has no overt political agenda — it isn’t exactly pro-tobacco — but it betrays Buckley’s conservative leanings nonetheless. It is the story of […]