Dana Goldstein

I really recommend that folks check out Kai Wright‘s TAP article today on the spate of noose-related hate crimes cropping up around the country this year — two times as many noose incidents than usually documented annually. Passing anti-hate crime legislation is an important step. But as Wright points out, we need to go further, […]

I just asked, “Can you ever imagine an American president divorcing in office?” A friend writes to say, “Yes! Rudy Giuliani!” So true. Both are also former mayors with cosmopolitan personal lives, race-baiting tendencies, and hawkish foreign policy instincts. —Dana Goldstein

Nicolas Sarkozy, no matter what you think of his politics, is simply one of the most fascinating individuals on the world stage. As strikes grip Paris in protest of his proposed cuts to worker pensions, he’s announced that he’s getting divorced from his wife of 11 years, Cécilia, who has long seem uninterested in his […]

Perhaps the author of this New York Sun editorial condemning Garance and Matt Yglesias‘ opposition to Rudy Giuliani didn’t live in New York City during the Giuliani mayoralty — and also didn’t own a television or know how to read back then? How else to account for his forgetfulness about the racial and ethnic divisiveness […]

New York City has placed sewer-sized decals on sidewalks outside subway exits to assist passengers in finding their final destinations. You all know the moment. You come out of the subway — even in the city you’ve lived in for years — and wonder, “Which way is West?” You’re angry at yourself when you walk […]

Joel Kotkin and Ali Modarres argue that environmentalists go too far in demonizing suburban sprawl, since cities contribute to global warming, too — though not as much as car culture does — and, after all, most Americans prefer to live in suburbs. The solution, they say, is “smart sprawl” planned suburbs such as Reston, Virgina […]

At least that’s what early 2008 congressional preference polls are showing, Ben Adler reports at Politico. In 2004, 18 to 29-year olds favored John Kerry by 9 points. But today, Democrats beat generic Republicans among the demographic by a whopping 32 points, 62 to 30. The only potentially bad news is that a significant number […]

Undoubtedly, House Democrats made a poorly timed diplomatic blunder when they sponsored a resolution condemning Turkey’s murderous displacement of Armenians from 1915 to 1917. But in the Washington Post today, Richard Cohen articulates my own discomfort with condemnations of the resolution, writing, “Call it genocide or call it something else, but there is only one […]

Okay, this poll had a sample size of only about 500 women, and it was conducted by Ladies Home Journal. Nevertheless, I found the results surprising: Both Democratic and Republican women say the Edwardses have the happiest marriage among presidential candidate couples. In second place are Barack and Michelle Obama. Considering that one-third of female […]