What We’re Reading

Carolyn O’Hara America’s Anchors, by Maureen Dowd, Rolling Stone – Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert give the Times columnist a dose of truthiness. Someone please send me a Stewart/Colbert ’08 T-shirt. Neo Culpa, by David Rose, Vanityfair.com – Neocons play the blame game. YouTube? It’s So Yesterday, By Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu, Washington Post ...


Carolyn O’Hara

  • America’s Anchors
    , by Maureen Dowd, Rolling Stone – Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert give the Times columnist a dose of truthiness. Someone please send me a Stewart/Colbert ’08 T-shirt.
  • Neo Culpa, by David Rose, Vanityfair.com – Neocons play the blame game.
  • YouTube? It’s So Yesterday, By Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu, Washington Post – Technology in future elections will do much more than put the latest campaign spots at your fingertips. Get ready for Politics 2.0.


Mike Boyer

Jeff Marn


Aditya Tiwathia

  • Empire Falls, by Niall Ferguson, Vanity Fair – Ferguson argues that the relative power of the West has declined because of the rise of Asia.

Kate Palmer 

  • Time for Us to Go, Washington Monthly – Several prominent conservatives, including Christopher Buckley and Bruce Bartlett, argue that the GOP has overstayed its welcome in congress.
  • After the Amnesty: 20 Years Later, by – Twenty years after the most significant U.S. immigration measure to date, the Monitor catches up with six of the immigrants granted amnesty through that bill.  

Kate Palmer is deputy managing editor at Foreign Policy.
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