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The new 'no comment': F--- off

The reporter’s e-mail was insistent, his questions obviously skeptical. The State Department official’s response was defensive, his mood obviously annoyed. Then the missiles started…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2907 words)

The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama

Published in the August 2012 issue You are a good man. You are an honorable man. You are both president of the United States and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. You are both the most powerful…
AUTHOR:Tom Junod
PUBLISHED: July 9, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1470 words)

Hog Wild

Ben Terris “It beats fundraising”: Rep. Dennis Ross on skinning a hog shot by NJ reporter Ben Terris. ZOLFO SPRINGS, Fla.—It’s 7:30 a.m., and already the congressman and I…
PUBLISHED: May 30, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (880 words)

For those promised college scholarships, the gift inspired pride and pain

William Smith heard the knock on the glass and rolled his wheelchair toward the sliding door. He pushed aside the blanket covering the window and saw Rudolph Norris, his old friend from high school,…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 20, 2011
LENGTH: 2 minutes (551 words)

Daunting difficulties for the children promised college scholarships

By Paul Schwartzman, Everyone was going inside the church that morning — his mother, his older sister, a stream of friends, relatives and basketball buddies, all of them holding one another…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 15, 2011
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3557 words)

Two wealthy men set out to transform the lives of 59 fifth-graders

By Paul Schwartzman, Darone Robinson and Rudolph Norris were driving home after playing basketball one afternoon, reminiscing about their school years together, about that kid who made them laugh,…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 15, 2011
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3311 words)

Christopher Hitchens

We were friends for more than thirty years, which is a long time but, now that he is gone, seems not nearly long enough. I was rather nervous when I first met him, one night in London in 1977, along…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 16, 2011
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2396 words)

Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?

In my seventh-grade year, my school took a bus trip from our native Baltimore to Gettys­burg, Pennsylvania, the sanctified epicenter of American tragedy. It was the mid-’80s, when…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3759 words)

Magnificent Visions

When a sufficient number of rafts had been built, work started on the pyramid’s superstructure. Haynes celebrated his 40th birthday on January 9, 2008, as the first shipments of 60-foot…
AUTHOR:Ted Mann
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1551 words)
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