In Dutch

Written by David Corn on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Morris’s recon mission has been tainted, though, by the now famous–and infamous–device he used to write Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan: he created a fictitious version of himself to serve as narrator. I was one of those critics who pounced on Morris before the book was even available for perusing. Call me a conventionalist,
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Torture on the Green

Written by Andrey Slivka on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Which is merely to say that LeRoy’s Tavern on the Green’s launched an interactive website–tavernonthegreen.com–through which you can secure meal reservations in "real time," whatever that means in this context. It’s with a certain perverse satisfaction that we note the curious fact that–if indeed the Tavern manages to live up in this case to its
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Counterrevolutionary Cuisine

Written by Jonathan Bines on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Waldy’s World As the city teems with bright, ambitious young chefs pushing the envelope of New American cuisine, a miniature backlash of sorts has begun to manifest itself among the culinary establishment’s old guard. Cowed, perhaps, by the magnitude of the innovation occurring all around them–mint "love letters" at Babbo; raw clams at Pop; lobster
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Brooklyn’s Burning Sensation

Written by Christian Viveros-Faune on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Now, just in time for Hizzoner’s fundraising campaign across several conservative Western states including California, the Mayor and his power-drunk yes-men have dragged up yet another politically defenseless non-contender from the ranks of the pugilistic bush league: the bookish, bravely principled, probably foolhardy Brooklyn Museum. If the breakneck pace of recent events is any indication,
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The Collyer Brothers of Harlem

Written by William Bryk on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Two years after the Collyers’ arrival, African-Americans began settling in Harlem in large numbers. By 1925, Harlem had been transformed from an upper-middle-class white suburb into the center of African-American life. But while nearly all the other white folks left, the Collyers did not. Dr. Collyer died in 1923; Mrs. Collyer in 1929. Their sons
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Down, Pat

Written by David Corn on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"The John Anderson?" Buchanan asked. Yes, the caller said, confirming he was indeed the last Republican presidential candidate who bolted from the party to run as a non-Republican. He then blasted Buchanan’s anti-internationalist foreign policy views. In 1980 Anderson, a liberal/moderate Republican congressman from Illinois, left the GOP in the middle of the primaries when
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