Book of daily devotionals from Hillary Clinton’s pastor pulled and pulped due to plagiarism
The morning after the 2016 election, the story goes, former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton checked her email. She discovered there a note, a touching devotion, from her spiritual adviser, the… Read more »
The Wikipedia page for the Calibri font has become a referendum on Pakistan’s ruling family
The daughters and sons of world leaders are just like daughters and sons everywhere: they want to find a bit of trouble, raise a little hell. Mostly they want to do… Read more »
Is the media really more divided than ever?
One positive aspect of the fallout from the election, if there can be said to be any, is that the liberal media that was so sure of a Clinton victory seems… Read more »
Donald Trump and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Press Conference
Hi there. President-elect Donald J. Trump, fresh off a long night trying to come up with some good tweets for his haters following the controversial publication of the BuzzFeed Dossier,… Read more »
Trump’s pick for National Security Council communications role is a serial plagiarizer
Melania Trump’s plagiarism of Michelle Obama was relegated to an even lower level of embarrassing-but-not-exactly-the-worst failings of the Trump political machine this past weekend. On Saturday, CNN’s K-File team reported… Read more »
Please, no more thought leaders
How valid is the work of high profile journalists, sometimes so-called “thought leaders”, taking large checks to inspire executives at Johnson & Johnson? David V. Johnson in the Boston Review… Read more »
Real page-churners
There was a depressing article in the New York Times over the weekend about the rate at which novelists are expected to churn out books these days: two a year… 1 / Read more »