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Anne Hays noticed that the two most recent issues of the New Yorker featured almost exclusively essays and reporting by male writers. So she's returned those copies to the magazine, accompanied by a blistering open letter to the editors. More »
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Though Sarah Palin's artfully constructed image is of the consummate Washington outsider, this week's issue of the New Yorker reports that from the moment she stepped foot in the Governor's mansion in Juneau, she actively courted the attention of several conservative Washington insiders, including New York Times op-ed columnist William Kristol, Michael Gerson of the Weekly Standard, and Fox News commentator Fred Barnes. They were her earliest cheerleaders, and I use that word because a friend of McCain's tells the New Yorker's Jane Mayer, "Kristol was out there shaking the pom-poms," for Palin as Vice Presidential nominee from early on. More »
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