The article’s title is a bit much—all political advertising is not untrue. Nevertheless, Lepore provides an engaging quick history on how political consulting and came into existence in 1933 with the founding of Campaigns, Inc. Read more at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/24/120924fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all
Robert J. Samuelson, “The $12 Trillion M
In this keeper of a column, Bob Samuelson explained how the deficit got so bad: Back in 2001, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected federal budget surpluses of $5.6 trillion for 2002-11. Instead, we got $6.1 trillion of deficits — a swing of $11.7 trillion. Naturally, political recriminations followed. Who or what caused the change? […]
William Voegeli, “Not Leveling With Us,”
In his review of two books on inequality in America, William Voegeli writes: The claim that the present degree of economic inequality is undemocratic and un-American becomes dubious if the people supposedly hurt by inequality are more acquiescent than outraged. Occupy Wall Street appears to have catalyzed nothing but drum circles, even as 2011’s furious […]
Joseph P. Viteritti, Stumbling Through: ...
Joseph P. Viteritti, who served on my dissertation committee, makes the following observations: “Joel Klein was a bold leader who imposed more changes on the city schools than any chancellor or superintendent in history. His policies directed the energy and the resources of the system towards those students with the greatest needs. His team was not always the […]
Sheila Weller “Suddenly That Summer,” Va
Weller writes, “It was billed as “the Summer of Love,” a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco streets in 1967. Who were the true movers behind the Haight-Ashbury happening that turned America on to a whole new age?” Read more at http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/07/lsd-drugs-summer-of-love-sixties
Michael Joseph Gross, World War 3.0,” Va
In December 2012, Diplomats from 193 countries will converge there to renegotiate a United Nations treaty called the International Telecommunications Regulations. The sprawling document, which governs telephone, television, and radio networks, may be extended to cover the Internet, raising questions about who should control it, and how. Arrayed on one side will be representatives from […]