What Happened to the Real Lou?
Polarizing CNN anchor Lou Dobbs is leaving the network. Just how did a respected financial-news guru turn into an immigrant-hating, birther-supporting zealot?
Sincerely, John Hughes
Ghosts of Mississippi
When I was 5 or 6, because of my dad’s political activism in the Mississippi Delta, local white supremacists burned a cross in our front yard. My parents had a decision to make: Wake me up or let me sleep. They chose sleep. On that night, hate and fear would not be passed to another generation.
Karzai in His Labyrinth
Hamid Karzai applauds himself for his big-tent, forgive-and-forget approach. But his opponents are thrashing him for it. “If the goal is to consolidate a group of drug dealers as the government of Afghanistan so that you have relative peace, then what is the vision?”
North Korea’s Dollar Store
Office 39, North Korea’s billion-dollar crime syndicate, pays for Kim Jong Il’s missiles and cognac. Why did the Bush White House choose not to shut it down?
My Father The Dope Dealer
When I was young, we lived the high life. Then it all went up in smoke.
The Only Bigmouths Were the Fish
My short, bewildering seasons covering the professional bass circuit.
For Many Americans, Nowhere to Go but Down
Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood
The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.
Nate Silver to Republicans: Raise Taxes
The GOP is no longer the party of the rich. It’s a populist party now, and the deficit can be its ticket back.
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