Greg Sargent

So what to make of Mike Bloomberg’s overwhelming victory over Fernando Ferrer in yesterday’s mayoral election? Today’s New York Observer shrewdly argues that Bloomberg can now be pronounced New York’s first imperial mayor. In a certain sense that’s true: Bloomberg may be the most powerful mayor of modern times, by dint of his overwhelming victory, […]

When Patrick Fitzgerald announced the indictment of Scooter Libby, he also gave dispiriting news to those hoping the full account of the Plame scandal would eventually be revealed. Not only did he not plan to release a report, he said, he could not release one — meaning he’d likely close up shop without revealing much […]

As if the tale of Mike Wallace, Louis Freeh, and Bill Clinton weren’t strange enough, it turns out that there’s more to the story. A great deal more. In recent days, CBS and Wallace have taken a pummeling for granting Freeh, the former FBI director, airtime on 60 Minutes to criticize Bill Clinton without allowing […]

As they seek to extricate The New York Times from the latest Judith Miller quagmire, Executive Editor Bill Keller and Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. face a stark choice: To whom do they owe their primary loyalty, their employees and shareholders or their readers? The paper’s readers have every right to feel spurned these days. […]

Should it matter to national Democrats that the mayor of New York is not only Republican but is also expected to win re-election by a comfortable margin? If you pose the question to Steven Rattner and Maureen White, the answer you’ll get is a resounding “no.” It’s hardly the response you’d expect, given that few […]

Last spring, when the anti-fast-food documentary Super Size Me began opening in American theaters, an opinion writer named Richard Berman swung into action. He cranked out a scathing op-ed for the Chicago Sun-Times that blasted the film for “serving up a flawed premise: that we’re powerless to stop Big Food from turning us into a […]

With the attention of the political world now turning to the 2006 midterm elections, the GOP is already preparing one facet of their strategy: They’re hoping to use the looming battles over judicial nominations to rile up their evangelical base and to paint Democrats as liberal obstructionists determined to block President George W. Bush’s choices […]

The torrent of campaign postmortems has begun, and, predictably, the media are allowing the winners to write the history of the race. It happens after every campaign: The winning camp declares that the primary cause of victory was the incompetence of the losing side, the shortcomings of the losing candidate, or some combination of the […]