Originally published on my blog Devil’s Advocate at True/Slant
In all the hundreds of thousands of words I read this weekend in the media about the Iran elections, it wasn’t until Monday morning, when Christopher Hitchens at Slate weighed in that I finally saw something in Western media that wasn’t dipped in chartreuse.
Hitchens eviscerated the idea of “free and fair” [...]
From The Columbia Journalism Review:
Exactly one month ago, the White House released financial documents on President Obama’s economic advisor, Larry Summers. They revealed, among other things, that Summers had earned $5.2 million from his work at the hedge fund giant, D.E. Shaw, where he had worked just one day a week from 2006 to 2008.
The New [...]
From The Guardian: Comment is Free:
Republicans have tried to downplay the significance of Arlen Specter switching parties, but his decision took them by surprise.
As the news of Arlen Specter’s defection to the Democratic party swept through Washington on Tuesday, players in the Beltway and national media were stunned. It came without rumour or warning, and Specter’s switch [...]