Category Archives: The Scoop

by Nick Street Nearly half a century ago—on September 11, 1963—the New York Times published a piece by David Halberstam that would, together with the rest of Halberstam's reportage from Southeast Asia, earn him the Pulitzer Prize a year later. … Continue reading →

by Judith Weisenfeld One of the summer's big political stories involved conservative activist Andrew Brietbart's selective editing of a video of USDA employee Shirley Sherrod speaking before an NAACP meeting. Sherrod recounted how, in the course of her work with … Continue reading →

Is our president a Muslim? Of course not. But rather than state the obvious, news outlets spent the summer ballyhooing polls, surveys and interviews that reveal 25 percent of Americans may be, at best, benighted, and, at worst, bespelled by … Continue reading →

by John Adams In just a couple of years, a significant portion of the American public has moved from questioning the patriotism of Barack Obama's pastor (and, by implication, the patriotism of candidate Obama) to wondering whether President Obama is, … Continue reading →

by Rhonda Roumani Amid the ongoing drama around Park51 and Glenn Beck's stagey MLK moment at the Lincoln Memorial, you may have missed New Gingrich's recent address at the American Enterprise Institute. The former Speaker of the House subtly played … Continue reading →

by Dalia Hashad While the news media have been covering (and often stoking) the drama around Park51, the proposed Islamic cultural center in lower Manhattan, a peculiar revisionist narrative keeps popping up: George W. Bush as a defender of Muslims. … Continue reading →

by J. Terry Todd New York City's Fringe International Festival is a two-week extravaganza of experimental theater held annually during the last two weeks of August. Now in its 14th year, the Festival serves up everything from drag performance to … Continue reading →

William Dalyrmple's opinion piece on the Islamic cultural center slated to be built near the site of the Twin Towers should put journalists and fellow travelers (that is, all of us) to shame. “Many of us are perfectly capable of … Continue reading →

by Andrea Tabor Women's longboard champion Joy Monahan isn't endorsing swimwear or board wax. In her latest promotional spot, she's selling Mormonism. Last week, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched a commercial campaign with one simple mission: … Continue reading →

by Richard Flory & Brie Loskota The sky is falling and apparently it's taking organized religion with it. That's the take-away message in a recent Los Angeles Times opinion piece by William Lobdell. Starting with novelist Anne Rice's defection from … Continue reading →