Category: Culture
Expanding Medicare to Cover Everyone | Phil Gramm Finally Gets the Boot
by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2008 | Media, PoliticsMayors Cheer Single Payer—Most of the national news media missed the story in the last week of June: the U.S. Conference of Mayors unanimously endorsed a bill that would provide universal health care under a single-payer system. West Palm Beach Mayor Lois J. Frankel introduced a resolution to support HR 676, Rep. John Conyers’s (D-MI) […]
Hillary, the Movie | Gingrich Foresees and Electoral Catastrophe for GOP
by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2008 | Media, PoliticsComing Attractions?—The only thing standing between David Bossie’s film Hillary, the Movie and box-office success is the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, which prohibits him from advertising it. “I can advertise if I don’t use Hillary’s name [or image],” Bossie told an audience of fifty at a free screening at the American Conservative Union’s CPAC convention in Washington, […]
Ralph Reed, John McCain and CNN
by WS Editors | Feb 1, 2008 | Media, PoliticsCNN NEWS ANCHOR ANDERSON COOPER BEGAN his wrap-up of the New Hampshire presidential primary by observing that it was “a remarkable night.” John McCain, who would refer to himself as “Lazarus,” had risen from the dead. And Hillary Clinton, who let down her guard and showed genuine emotion, defied pollsters and also ended up the […]
A Republican Legal Blacklist | Journalism Is a Dangerous Job | The Future of Guantánamo
by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2007 | Foreign Policy, MediaPurging Prosecutors—It’s an ugly trend. Democratic control of Congress hasn’t stopped the Bush administration from continuing to remake the courts and refashion the rule of law in its ideological image. In recent months, eight U.S. Attorneys have been asked to resign by the Justice Department in an unprecedented purge of the nation’s top law enforcement […]
Remembering Molly Ivins | Strange Bedfellows | Florida Dumps Electronic Voting
by WS Editors | Feb 15, 2007 | Culture, EconomyRemembering Molly—We know that a great many of you first subscribed to the Spectatorbased on the recommendation of Molly Ivins, the iconic liberal columnist and humorist who, as you no doubt know, died on January 31 after a long fight with cancer. Molly got to know our longtime editor Ben A. Franklin back in the days […]
Bad Faith Documentary
