Beck & Tom Waits: A Conversation
There’s something maybe uncomfortable now to just hearing somebody’s voice in a room singing.’
Jeb Bush: The Future of the Republican Party
With no obvious candidate to lead the Republican party (and one having just stepped down), some are looking to Jeb Bush. Which is news to him.
The Place of Women on the Court
In late February, three weeks after she had an operation for a recurrence of cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to Barack Obama’s first address to Congress. Given the circumstances, it wasn’t an event anyone expected her to attend. She went, she said, because she wanted the country to see that there was a woman on the Supreme Court.
How I lost my health insurance at the hairstylist’s
The Malaise-Proofing of Michael Bloomberg
Dispensing with any elaborate pretense about being in a competitive re-election contest, Mr. Bloomberg’s handlers have begun to use the mayor’s public appearances to address what happens after 2009. Their political task: to figure out a way of avoiding the historic curse of the complacent, unfocused and regrettable third term.
The Real Quagmire in the Middle East
New York’s Indispensable Institution
The NYPD’s crime-fighting sparked the city’s economic revival and is essential to its future.
Michael Anthony Steele: Kids Screenwriter, Novelizationist, Ad Man
“It’s different for each age group. For example, one of the original Barney writers, Steve White, had a good piece of advice for writing for preschool kids and kids in general. He said, you can use all the vaudeville pratfalls and the oldest joke in the book on these kids because they’ve never seen it before, it’s brand new to them and it’s really funny to them. Stuff that we’d think was corny, and oh my gosh, that’s such an old joke or that’s such a bad joke, kids love it.”
The Social Network (Facebook Movie)
Tom Williams: Hired By Apple at 14. His Full Story
I was recently in Vancouver Canada for a week, considering moving there, when my friend Ariel Hyatt said, “You have to meet this amazing guy Tom Williams. He got hired by Apple when he was only 14. I think the company had to, like, legally adopt him to do it. He’s a go-getter like you. Plus his wife, Jessie is an awesome country artist.”
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