“Just 25% of Americans say the White House is fully cooperating with the federal investigation into the leak of [Valerie Plame] Wilson’s identity, King Georgie Boy has renegged on earlier declarations that he’d fire anyone involved in the leak. Bear in mind, this The New York Times replied this morning to Frank Rich’s take on […]

“I can’t wait till 2008,” a vaudeville cartoon comedy cabaret act. It stars Hillary Clinton, with Bill, Kerry, Al, Jimmy, Georgie, Dickie, Nancy and “pussy-whipped” Osama in supporting roles, and Rudy, Chelsea and Michael Moore in walk-ons. Produced by Michael Hodges, unfortunately a conservative Republican who likes click, watch and listen. You won’t be disappointed. […]

If dance companies lack support in this country, as everyone agrees, you’d never have known it from the Pilobolus performances earlier this week at the Pilobolus hallmarks of gymnastic strength, playful humor, unimaginable energy and, above all, the sense that nothing human is alien to this troupe, no matter how strange. While the electrically charged […]

Is Judith Miller grandstanding? When she went to jail rather than testify about her confidential sources in the Plame case, did she go as a matter of principle or because she thought it was a good career move? Only Judy knows. But put the question that way — David Ehrenstein’s riff on “Gypsy.” “Judy’s Turn.” […]

David D’Arcy affair. At the 11th hour, before a scheduled July 7 arbitration hearing, NPR agreed to compensate staff editor Tom Cole, a member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, whose pay had been docked as a disciplinary measure without due process, in what AFTRA had charged was a violation of the […]

now we know: It was Karl Rove, left, who

John Gray, my preferred philosopher, says on the first page of one of his handy little books: “No cliché is more stupefying than that which describes Al Qaeda as a throwback to medieval times.” He goes on to point out that its “closest precursors are the revolutionary anarchists of late-nineteenth-century Europe.” Not a view widely […]

Terrorism: Questons & Answers. In the wake of the claim of responsibility, still not authenticated, it’s worth reading if only as a reminder of some essentials, i.e.: “What is al-Qaeda?” (The words are Arabic for “the base”), “What are al-Qaeda’s origins?” (the Services Office, a clearinghouse for the international Muslim brigade opposed to the 1979 […]

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thousands of demonstrators demanded an end to the Iraq war, debt relief for Africa, and action on global warming. So debt relief for Africa, these are the key questions: • What are the current plans? • What exactly does Blair’s plan call for? • How would the financing mechanism (known as the Millenium Challenge Account)? […]

If Karl Rove did not out Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA agent, one of Cooper’s confidential sources, what is he still hiding? That he’s an arrogant S.O.B., EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

The Prairie Home Companion’s man from Lake Wobegone met the They sat and talked in a cafe in San Francisco’s North Beach, and Keillor wrote: “Here is an 83-year-old artist whose eyes are bright and who, while furious at the Administration, rides his bicycle through the city he loves and enjoys its courtesies and graces […]

I’ve been watching the global feed of Live 8, which is being streamed online in an AOL webcast. At the moment the global feed is showing Dido onstage in London, where the scene looks too dull to watch. But you can also switch to Rome, where the camera crew is really flying — not a […]

As world leaders gather for the international summit in Scotland next week, our war prez is suddenly getting too much good p.r. from friendly headlines here in The New York Times, as well as a Not to mention the worldwide attention tied to the celebrity-studded Bob Geldof, left, and taking place this weekend — in […]