Articles Written By Clay Risen
TMN Contributing Writer Clay Risen’s first attempt to build a website fell apart after he learned that risen.com had been bought by a hardcore Christian rock band. Clay is a senior staff editor at the New York Times and the author, most recently, of The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act. He lives in Brooklyn.
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New York, New York
Withering Heights
Great buildings deserve strong guardians and even stronger PR, and so do bad buildings apparently, as shown in the case of 2 Columbus Circle.
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Opinions
Barking at the Gate
The White House Correspondents Association dinner is DC’s biggest night—politicos mix with editors mix with celebrities, all very realalcoholik. It’s also among the lowest points of journalism.
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The Non-Expert
Economy-size
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we counsel a young man beleaguered by visions of marked-down tuna fish and cases of Two Buck Chuck.
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The Non-Expert
IT
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week a reader sends in a cryptic plea for help in the ways of “IT” and we decipher “IT"s true meaning.
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New York, New York
Too Little, Too Soon
The plan for the Sept. 11 memorial at the World Trade Center site is nearly finished, but what good is a design competition when we’re still trying to decipher the meaning of the event?
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Opinions
Where I’m Coming From
Southerners routinely get trashed up north, where they’re either derided as racists or hayseeds, or the offspring of siblings.
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Opinions
Notes on a Federal Culture
Urban character is easy—Chicago has architecture, New York has culture, Los Angeles has a six-hour flight to New York—but what about cities with zero personality? Let’s say, Washington?
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Opinions
Downtown Dealing
In recent years public architecture has a bad record in New York, especially after the uglification of modernism. Why then are people not paying more attention to Ground Zero?
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New York, New York
The Knickerbocker
Of all the classic New York hotels, one of its finest, the Knickerbocker, has fallen into almost-total obscurity.
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Opinions
Another Roadside Attraction
The Washington Post’s new free newspaper Express is targeted to illiterate youngsters with wallets. A report on the difficulties of selling young and hip.
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Opinions
Waiting for Aiken
Since 1989, anyone named after some variation of Urkel has lived a miserable existence.
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Opinions
The Facts of Life
Fact-checking: It’s not an easy job, and it’s not without its faults. Which is why it wasn’t any feat of genius for Stephen Glass or Jayson Blair to crack the system.