Articles Tagged with #politics
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Spoofs & Satire
The Third-Inning Blooper Reel
Contract disputes, managerial changes, players testifying on Capitol Hill about steroid use: With only a month until spring training, baseball didn’t get much of a rest this off-season.
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Spoofs & Satire
Stimulating
The government says your stimulus check will soon be in the mail, but when you finally receive it, should you invest it—or instead blow it on something the economy won’t ever forget?
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The Guilfoile-Warner Papers
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be 2008
With Super Tuesday upon us, Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner assess the remaining field of competitors, have the audacity to hope, and break down the candidates into the kinds of VHS-or-Beta terms we can understand.
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Spoofs & Satire
A President for Hill View Neighborhood Watch Like My Father
We need a president who welcomes responsibility, who can connect with people of all walks of life, and who will work to make our neighborhood great again.
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The Guilfoile-Warner Papers
The Huckaboom and the Obamawagon
In the weeks before the 2004 election, Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner opped and edded their way through the debates, issues, and differences in hair. With just 299 days left in the 2008 race, they sharpen their quills.
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Spoofs & Satire
Children’s Letters to George W. Bush
The White House is besieged by requests from all corners, even America’s classrooms. A trove of letters to the president, discovered.
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Spoofs & Satire
America’s Next Top Model Democracy
The winning country receives billions in government contracts and becomes the show’s next host. Who will it be?
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Going Back to Kali
When We Go North
Along bumpy roads and past intimidating border posts, our author heads north for his cousin’s wedding and discovers safety might be just a state of mind, in the fourth installment in his travel journal.
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The Artist at Home
Essad Bey at Positano
Lev Nussimbaum spent the second half of his life as a refashioned Muslim prince—before meeting an early end in Italy.
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Spoofs & Satire
Choose MedCalf
Americans spend more on health care than anyone in the world, yet the quality of our care doesn’t match up. We need a new system—one we can believe in.
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Personal Essays
Misery Loves Comedy
Grief takes on many forms, though it’s rare to hear about a sudden addiction to comedy clubs and Seth Meyers’s political impersonations.
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Scandal Cheat Sheet
The Purgegate Primer
In December eight U.S. Attorneys were dismissed; now Congress wants to find out why. There may be a scandal brewing, but the details are still murky.