Lawyers ask the Bush administration: Is all this secrecy doing us more harm than it's doing good for anybody? Of course, lawyering is just an alternative to having sex with a dolphin. "She wanted to make all the decisions and stuff. She wanted final cut and everything.
Golden fluff remade: Estelle Getty gets the Beyoncé makeover; an X-wing fighter looks better made out of hands; rap fit for crying and cleaning; weathermen, saints of television, swearing and fighting; Norman Mailer wrestling with Rip Torn; and Brigitte Bardot singing you a lullaby.
After months of figuring out ways to not fight back, the White House authorized troops in Iraq to kill or capture Iranian operatives. In Iraq, Sadr and his followers back off from violence--though U.S. officials can only guess as to why. Suicide bomber kills himself, one other person
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we address a question thousands of young men and women grapple with each year: To law school or not to law school?
Scooter trial reveals Cheney was deeply involved with the Wilson affair. (Catch live coverage.) Overnight curfew for Beirut after deadly clashes erupt between students. Twenty secrets from infamous dead spy Howard Hunt, who died Tuesday at 88. He showed an affinity at an early age for figuring out how things
Idaho senator learns, with dismay, committee reports can't really shut down public institutions. Let them bear the guilty burden, before the world. Compiling poetry from Guantanamo Bay. Top 10 beaches with wireless internet access. Notes on the educational segregation of America: clusters of college graduates, plains of brain
Senate committee approves resolution to oppose Bush's troop buildup--much to Cheney's humor. Cheney says the U.S. has achieved "enormous successes" in Iraq, blames failures on media's lack of imagination. It is extraordinary that, almost four years after U.S. forces
Eight centuries later, habeas corpus doesn't apply to everyone; This American Life's take on habeas corpus and the residents at Guantanamo Bay. Is rave making a comeback in the underground? And if we're reading about it in this article, doesn't that prove
During the last ice age, the winds blew the other way. And: The effect of global warming on wine regions--some rejoice, while others mourn. RAZZIE nominees for the worst acting performances of 2006 announced; New York neighborhood group honors the city's worst landlords. Frank Bruni invites fancy
Masters of the musical universe who put songs in singers’ mouths, I am just sick about this track—thank you for this artist, this song! My window is open and the neighbors are torturing their cats just to have something else to listen to. As of this scribbling, iTunes reports
