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Forest Service Inflamed By Brooklyn Anti-Fracking Artist's Smokey the Bear

Brooklyn-based artist and environmental activist Lopi LaRoe sees Smokey the Bear as a friend. As a kid raised by environmentalists, she grew up with him, she says, and feels a particular connection to the affable, but informative cultural touchstone invented by the US Forest Service in 1944. "So I t ... More >>

White House Releases Controversial Homebrew Recipes

Last week we, the people, demanded that the president release the recipes for his White House home brews -- the beers he enjoys so much, he is carrying some along the campaign trail. How did the White House respond? By making adorable beer puns and sharing the recipes, at last: With public excitem ... More >>

Santorum Spreads Across Michigan in New Campaign Ads

​Rick Santorum, who despite being pretty un-electable on a national level has gained the favor of his fellow Republicans, has started to do battle with top rival Mitt Romney in Michigan in a series of televised ads. As detailed in the Los Angeles Times, Santorum decided to release commercial ... More >>

What You Can Learn About Rick Perry From His Interview in Parade Magazine

​Rick Perry gave an interview to Parade Magazine (this week's issue was, yet again, almost completely devoid of any coverage on parades or the parade-attending lifestyle) and people are needling him for comments he made about Barack Obama's birth certificate. He told the interviewer that he ha ... More >>

Some Squawk, But Debt Ceiling Budget Fight Goes Just the Way Rightbloggers Want It

Last week the Congressional fight over America's debt ceiling became a full-blown hostage situation, with Republicans demanding, in exchange for what has been during previous Administrations a pro-forma procedure, major budget concessions from Democrats -- and getting them. At this writing, there s ... More >>

Brian Williams for President Campaign Trying to Get the Attention of Brian Williams

​Remember Brian Williams, the dashingly handsome evening news anchor who is all sorts of cynical-funny and made some jokes about Brooklyn a couple of times? Well, there are people who like him, like him a lot. And some of them want him to run for president. According to "campaign manager" Eric ... More >>

Here's the Secret Service Audio From When President Ronald Reagan Was Shot

The Secret Service released an audio recording today of the minutes following the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr., who was famously trying to impress the young actress Jodie Foster. Hinckley failed to hit Reagan directly, but wounded press secretary James Brad ... More >>

After the Shellacking, the Return of the "Arrogant Obama" Meme

Hey sheeples: Barack Obama thinks he's better than you. Obama gets a lot of this from conservatives, and has since before he was elected. He's been called "arrogant" by thousands of them, including Karl Rove and Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton. But this week he got a heavier dose of it than usual, ... More >>

Bobby Thompson's Famous Homer and Yogi's Famous Saying

​On October 3, 1951, the Giants' Bobby Thomson - who died yesterday at age 86 - did more than hit the most famous home run in baseball history. He also inspired one of baseball's most famous sayings. The Yankees had clinched the American League pennant just a couple of days before the Giant ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find a New Enemy of the People: Captain America

​As seen from the French Revolution forward, partisans of a populist movement that claims to represent the will of the people against The Man must be constantly on guard against mockery or criticism by its enemies. No slight, however minor, can be left unaddressed, lest it feed the worm of dou ... More >>

Conservatives Urged to Boycott NFL

In the annals of rightwing hubris, we haven't seen much to equal this: one of the conservatives enraged that Rush Limbaugh's ex-partners have excluded him from their plans to buy the Rams (which Limbaugh and his followers blame on liberals) has proposed that patriots counter-attack by... boycotting ... More >>

Obama Defends Gitmo Stance: "We Are Cleaning Something That is a Mess"

"These are extraordinary times for our country," said the President at his press conference on the disposition of Guantanamo Bay detainees. "So there's no shortage of work to be done... But my single most important responsibility as President is to keep the American people safe." The best way to ... More >>

Souvenirs and Slime: Inside the Greatest Collection of Presidential Campaign Memorabilia

Is Obama's Constitution Strong Enough?

He stirs the crowds, but when will he tell them about their lost liberties?

We're All Suspects

As our civil liberties disappear, where are the Democrats?

Tragically Now

Charles Mee's Iphigenia 2.0 throws a big violent Greek wedding—and it's yours

'There Is No Law Here'

A funny thing happened on the way to monarchy: a rare Supreme Court take-back

A Neo-Nazi Field Trip to the Met

White supremacists from across the country gather in New Jersey and New York for barbecue and culture.

L.A. Story

Charles Burnett's much revered, rarely seen South Central-set film finally gets its theatrical due

Bush's Invisible Ink

Signing into law bills from Congress, the president often adds that he won't enforce them.

The Detached Cool of Andy Warhol

Close-Up on Brooklyn Heights

Memorial Plots

The clash over exactly what story to tell at the ground zero museum

Garbage in, Golf Course out

The course of a Bronx dump is forever changed—for better or worse, for richer and for poorer

Autumn Sonata

Young guns Jaoui and Jia mingle with old masters Bergman, Rohmer, and Godard at NYFF

Death of a Salesman

Ronald Reagan, 1911–2004

The Divine Calm of George W. Bush

So Iraq's a mess and half the country hates you. Just keep praying.

Head Case

Taking another, more favorable look at a key member of Chicago's 'Hairy Who' posse

Clark's Changing Tune on Iraq

General Wobbled and Weaved as His Candidacy Neared

Close-Up on Hamilton Grange

Supertots And Frankenkids

On the Rights of Those Not Yet Designed

Ashcroft's Shadowy Disciple

Someone to Watch Over Us

Close Up On: Washington Heights

The Other Ghosts of Ground Zero

Unlike Other New York Landmarks, the Twin Towers Were Built on Landfill(ed) With Drama of the Past

The Olympic Leap

Will the 2008 Games Push China Into Change?

Shape-Shifting Creature Features

Art & Industry

First Wife’s Club

The Inauguration’s Over, and Already Rumblings About Election 2004 Have Begun. Hillary Anyone?

Negative Space

Flashback: The Year in Movies

Picture This

Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

Dope Education

Pupils Purchase Pills, Powders, Pot

Nation

Inside New York's Foster Care System

34,000 Kids Trying to Catch a Break

Sports

Johnnies on the Spot

Bootsy and Barkley Lead the Red Storm From the Backcourt

Down With Alpha Males!

A Top Man Is Not a Leader

Bats Out Of Hell

Julian Koster's loop-the- loop

Black in the Saddle

The great African American jockeys are riding back into history

Eye of the Storm

The tough midseason tests continue for St. John's following their bedeviling loss to Duke

Human Rights 'Miracle'

Detention of former Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet could signal a Latin American Nuremberg