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• Statement From the Family of Osama bin Laden

  Tue May 10, 2011
  • Failure to answer these questions will force us to go to International forum for justice such as International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice and UN must take notice of the violation of international law and assist us to have answers for which we are lawful in seeking them.

• Bin Laden Is Dead, Obama Says - NYTimes.com

  Mon May 2, 2011
  • “No Americans were harmed,” Mr. Obama said. “They took care to avoid civilian casualties.

• Osama bin Laden Was the Most Wanted Face of Terrorism - NYTimes.com

  Mon May 2, 2011
  • His greatest hope, he told supporters, was that if he died at the hands of the Americans, the Muslim world would rise up and defeat the nation that had killed him. Somehow, I think the Muslim world is much too good for that.

• The Tea Party and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

  Fri Apr 22, 2011
  • Yet, probe beyond the triteness of Rand's plot and the fragmented rendering of her philosophy, and striking discrepancies between her Objectivism and conservative sentiment become apparent.

• The Problem with Covering Polls

  Mon Apr 11, 2011
  • Journalists are not supposed to merely reflect the public’s misconceptions back to them. They are supposed to correct those misconceptions. But there is a word for this kind of article, and the word is not journalism—it’s propaganda.

• Death and Taxes -- Why David Foster Wallace still demands our attention

  Fri Apr 1, 2011
  • In the end, Wallace’s body of work amounts to an extended philosophical experiment. Can “morally passionate, passionately moral” fiction help free us from the prisons we make? To judge solely by his suicide, the experiment would seem to have failed.

• "What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text"

  Sat Mar 26, 2011
  • I’ve long been frustrated with the “distance” between criticism and reading itself.

• Amazon's Newest Kindle Creation

  Sat Mar 26, 2011
  • So it’s entirely fitting that Amazon, that indigenous American e-tailer, now sells narrative nonfiction by masters like Pete Hamill, Ron Rosenbaum and Mark Greif in a pricing and programming algorithm that Amazon has developed exclusively for it.

• Enough of the triumph of nihilism and rightwing pessimism

  Sat Mar 26, 2011
  • Yeah, it's got good opening and closing paragraphs, and a whole bunch of fog in between.

• Steve Inskeep Stands Up for NPR

  Fri Mar 25, 2011
  • Kudos to Inskeep too for making a point that should get the goat of all who care about journalism: while James O’Keefe was orchestrating and promoting his “gotcha” sting, real journalists at NPR were out committing acts of real, dangerous, and valuable journalism.