Republicans and New York’s ‘Democratic’ mayor demagogue on the issue, even as many real Democrats fail even to engage it.
Music
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Ticketmaster’s Dark History
A 40-year saga of kickbacks, threats, political maneuvering, and the humiliation of Pearl Jam
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Altercation: The Journalism Business Is Bad, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
As mainstream publications cut jobs, heavily subsidized right-wing agitprop is filling the gap.
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Altercation: Bibi and Donald, Growing Even Worse
Illiberal leaders, by inclination and also in hopes of avoiding the slammer
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Altercation: Here’s What’s Really Behind the News
Some serious scholarship (and some Springsteen and Sinatra)
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Swifties Go Berserk Toward Ticketmaster
The ticketing monopoly may have messed with the wrong group of millions of rabid fans.
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Altercation: The American—and Jewish—Divide Over Israel
My new book analyzes the 55-year-old rift, now grown to a chasm, in which the right’s remaking of and romance with Israel has detached young U.S. Jews from organized Judaism.
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Altercation: Wenner Fake All (Well, Much)
The newly released memoir from Rolling Stone’s guiding genius isn’t where you’d go for facts, as such, but if there were a Pulitzer for name-dropping, it’d win going away.
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Altercation: At the Movies
Two new films brilliantly depict the increasingly embattled craft of journalism.
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Altercation: Maggie Haberman’s New Book Puts Trump in Context
The surprisingly good ‘Confidence Man’ actually makes sense of Trump’s rise and his ability to twist the media to his will.