Venus Envy:On VH1's Best Week Ever wannabes make fun of real celebrities. Dennis Cass television, April 9, 2004, 3:48 PM PT
Pretty on the Inside:NBC's Starting Over takes the pain out of self-actualization. Dana Stevens television, April 9, 2004, 3:30 PM PT
Hired Guns:What to do about military contractors run amok. Phillip Carter jurisprudence, April 9, 2004, 2:57 PM PT
If You Build It, Will They Shut Up?:They knocked down the Vet. Philadelphia's culture of losing should go with it. Allen Barra sports nut, April 9, 2004, 2:23 PM PT
Foreign Exchange:Should the Supreme Court care what other countries think? Tim Wu jurisprudence, April 9, 2004, 2:03 PM PT
Vox Populi:Rice is tasked to fall on her sword. Kevin Arnovitz fraywatch, April 9, 2004, 1:59 PM PT
Dealing With Defective Defectors:60 Minutes shows Vanity Fair and the New York Times how it's done. Jack Shafer press box, April 9, 2004, 1:56 PM PT
Pic Mystery Solved:The book wasn't upside down. Timothy Noah chatterbox, April 9, 2004, 1:43 PM PT
Enough Spice:Is soccer star Beckham about to ditch his wife? Josh Levin in other magazines, April 9, 2004, 1:25 PM PT
Truth Is Duller Than Fiction:The latest big-screen Alamo is accurate, and boring. Ben Williams summary judgment, April 9, 2004, 1:01 PM PT
Jesus Christ:Choose your own savior. Chris Suellentrop assessment, April 9, 2004, 12:38 PM PT
Gossip, speculation, and scuttlebutt about politics.
Thursday, April 8, 2004
LexiCondi:Decoding Rice's self-serving testimony. William Saletan ballot box, April 8, 2004, 4:16 PM PT
Condi Lousy:Why Rice is a bad national security adviser. Fred Kaplan war stories, April 8, 2004, 3:17 PM PT
Remember the Alamo?:Disney doesn't. This is the Texas battle's most confused treatment yet. David Edelstein movies, April 8, 2004, 2:09 PM PT
You Can Negotiate Anything—Except This:In which Enron miscreants Lea and Andrew Fastow learn you can't always make a deal. Daniel Gross moneybox, April 8, 2004, 12:47 PM PT
South Africa 10 Years After Apartheid:Truth and reconciliation on the prison island where Nelson Mandela spent decades. Jennifer Abrahamson dispatches, April 8, 2004, 11:24 AM PT
Draft Moore: The Web Site:A Draft Moore movement emerges. But who's behind it? Timothy Noah chatterbox, April 8, 2004, 12:29 PM PT
Frisky Business:The Girl Next Door apes the teen-sex romps of yore. David Edelstein movies, April 8, 2004, 12:20 PM PT
Hong Kong Hustle:China crushes the territory's dreams for democracy. Ed Finn international papers, April 8, 2004, 12:11 PM PT
Dispatches From Iraq:The season of assassinations and black flags. Wendell Steavenson dispatches, April 8, 2004, 9:15 AM PT
Why Eat Peeps at Easter?:How the marshmallow chicks found Jesus. Rachel Deahl explainer, April 8, 2004, 9:25 AM PT
Petophilia:Can you ever love your dog too much? (And no, we don't mean it that way.) Jon Katz heavy petting, April 8, 2004, 7:52 AM PT
Oedipus Wrecks:My husband divulges too much of our personal life to his mother. dear prudence, April 8, 2004, 4:20 AM PT
Rolling Rebellion:A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers. Eric Umansky today's papers, April 8, 2004, 2:46 AM PT
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
No-Fly Like Me:I'm on the government's watch list for terrorists, but I still think the ACLU's court challenge is dumb. Timothy Noah chatterbox, April 7, 2004, 5:22 PM PT
Love Me, Love My Tantrums:What happened to Courtney in the decade since Kurt Cobain's death? Amanda Fortini culturebox, April 7, 2004, 3:41 PM PT
Rwanda's Latest Ethnic Cleansing:True reconciliation is impossible until everyone's suffering is recognized. Michael J. Kavanagh foreigners, April 7, 2004, 3:18 PM PT
South Africa 10 Years After Apartheid:Dipak Patel's transformation from bomb maker to banker. Jennifer Abrahamson dispatches, April 7, 2004, 11:24 AM PT
Trumpeting Mediocrity:Was Wynton Marsalis ever that good? Fred Kaplan music box, April 7, 2004, 2:17 PM PT
The Game of Wife:Gay marriage comes to video games. Clive Thompson gaming, April 7, 2004, 1:33 PM PT
The Jobs Jitterbug:The Bushies flip—and flip-flop—over the latest employment figures. Daniel Gross moneybox, April 7, 2004, 1:20 PM PT
Holy Matrimony:The most important gay marriage battles will be fought in the pews. Emily Bazelon jurisprudence, April 7, 2004, 11:31 AM PT
A Call for More Matzo:What Israel's leaders could learn from the lowly unleavened bread. Carl Schrag international papers, April 6, 2004, 1:41 PM PT
South Africa 10 Years After Apartheid:Can anti-retroviral drugs solve the country's HIV/AIDS crisis? Jennifer Abrahamson dispatches, April 6, 2004, 11:24 AM PT
Dispatches From Iraq:The Americans are coming ... for Muqtada. Wendell Steavenson dispatches, April 6, 2004, 9:15 AM PT
Uni Watch:The sports coat of champions. Paul Lukas sports nut , April 6, 2004, 8:55 AM PT
Hysteric Cleric:A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers. Hudson Morgan today's papers, April 6, 2004, 3:53 AM PT
How Firm Is It?:Bush starts to hedge on the Iraq handover date. Mickey Kaus kausfiles, April 6, 2004, 1:46 AM PT
Monday, April 5, 2004
Flattery Operated:Watch as a New York Times reporter butters up Karen Hughes. Jack Shafer press box, April 5, 2004, 4:55 PM PT
Front Page Horror:Should newspapers show us violent images from Iraq? Jim Lewis culturebox, April 5, 2004, 3:32 PM PT
The Post's Mystery Pic:Why did Jenna Slosson read her book upside-down? Timothy Noah chatterbox, April 5, 2004, 3:19 PM PT
Mob Experts on The Sopranos, Week 5:Who gets whacked next? Jerry Capeci, Jeffrey Goldberg, and Gerald Shargel tv club, April 5, 2004, 2:15 PM PT
Cruise Control:The publicist behind the movie star. Adam Sternbergh culturebox, April 5, 2004, 2:15 PM PT
South Africa 10 Years After Apartheid:Land reform may be moving at "a snail's pace," but Mataffin is a success story. Jennifer Abrahamson dispatches, April 5, 2004, 11:24 AM PT
Florence Henderson Calling:A weeklong journal from a musician on tour. Dan Crane diary, April 5, 2004, 10:11 AM PT
A Sadr Story:A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers. Eric Umansky today's papers, April 5, 2004, 2:34 AM PT
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