Mitt Romney wants to be president, but he doesn’t want us to see him.
John Powers
John Powers, the author of Sore Winners (And the Rest of Us) in George Bush's America (Doubleday), writes about culture and politics for Vogue and is critic-at-large for NPR's Fresh Air.
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The West Coast of Utopia: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Science Fiction of Hope
If any political ideal has taken a drubbing over the past hundred years, it’s surely the left’s vision of utopia. How far we’ve fallen from those lofty 19th-century dreams—the classless society, the withering away of the state, the happy news from Nowhere. Merely to mention such hopes nowadays is to call up ghastly images of […]
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Dreams from My President
Three and a half years after his election, Barack Obama remains a mystery to many Americans.
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Rachel Maddow, the Lovable Wonk
With the release of her latest book, Drift, MSNBC’s biggest star shows once again why she’s captured the liberal imagination.
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The Inside Track
Luck, HBO’s horse-racing series, is about the other American pastime: gaming the system.
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Highlight Reel
The year in culture: the winners, the losers, and not spiking the football
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Manning Up
Rick Perry, the man George W. Bush pretended to be, personifies the allure of Texastosterone.
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The Right Word
ConservativeSpeak has so infiltrated the language that we now need a glossary.