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Feb 04, 2013
Books Briefly Noted

The River Swimmer

Briefly Noted review of “The River Swimmer” (Grove), by Jim Harrison…
December 12, 2012
Blog: News Desk

The Right Way to Do Democracy Wrong

Watching the battle over “right-to-work” laws that took place in Michigan this week, it's obvious the state G.O.P. learned at least one thing in 2012: if you are going to smack representative democracy in the face for political gain, best to do it right after an election, not before one.
February 27, 2012
Blog: Double Take

Takes: Campaigning in Detroit, 1980

Fuel-efficient 1981 models are parked on the runway, with signs atop them giving the name of the car company: a Chrysler K car, a General Motors Buick Skylark, a Volkswagen made in America, and an...
February 24, 2012
Blog: Rational Irrationality

Good News! Michigan G.O.P. Turns on “Pinko” Rick

There’s nothing like a few days in the mountains to get perspective on things and recall old truths. Much of what passes for electoral politics in this country is a farce. And the serious...
February 7, 2012
Blog: Letter from China

How Did Hoekstra Get So Much Wrong?

Michigan Republican Pete Hoekstra’s anti-China ad has arrived in China, and instead of inspiring outrage it is being greeted by guffaws, pity for his math and language skills, and puzzlement that his propagandists—and this...
Aug 01, 2011
Books Briefly Noted

Once Upon a River

Briefly Noted review of “Once Upon a River” (Norton; $25.95), by Bonnie Jo Campbell…
May 02, 2011
A Reporter at Large

The Mark

A REPORTER AT LARGE about Michael Grimm, Josef von Habsburg, Albert Santoro, and the use of confidential informants by the F.B.I. and other law-enforcement agencies. Grimm, a forty-year-old United States congressman from Staten Island, is a former marine and F.B.I. agent. Grimm’s “most notable case,” as he…
March 25, 2011
Blog: The Sporting Scene

March Madness: One and Done

Jason Hehir’s new ESPN documentary, “The Fab 5,” communicates the excitement that the University of Michigan basketball team of the early nineties delivered. The unique style of the five players—Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen...
March 21, 2011
Blog: The Sporting Scene

March Madness: The Kids Are All Right

Young American males are not a notoriously reliable subsection of humanity, and yet, each March, seemingly mature adults entrust their faith, hope, and petty cash to the nation’s top college-basketball players—often with unfortunate results. We...
September 22, 2010
Blog: Page-Turner

Should Criminals Be Sentenced to Read?

The idea of using reading as punishment seems at first incomprehensible, even for those of us who may have declared "Robinson Crusoe" cruel and unusual when it was assigned in the sixth grade. (Come to...
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