Jesters want the throne Forget about playing shadowy, Nixonian dirty tricks on one’s political opponents. This POTUS race is shaping up to be all about the public trolling—with bonus points awarded for daffiness. Exhibit A: After Marco Rubio got all sweaty in the endless CNN debate, Team Trump delivered a thoughtful care package to Rubio […]
Michelle Cottle
Follow Michelle on Twitter @mcottle. Michelle Cottle is a member of the New York Times editorial board and the Washington Monthly's Board of Directors. She was an editor for the Monthly from 1996 to 1998.
Posted inJune/July/August 2014, Magazine
Tilting at Windmills
Is McConnell’s “free speech” machine about to meet its match?
Posted inMagazine
Love Potion #9.1
It has been six months since Pfizer pharmaceuticals unleashed its wonder drug to combat erectile dysfunction on an unsuspecting – albeit receptive – public. Since then, the news has been awash in stories of the sales records being set (4.3 million prescriptions in its first week), the gushings of satisfied users, the lamentations of besieged […]
Posted inMagazine
Too Well Endowed?
Often, it is the confluence of several news events that brings the real story into focus. Take the Feb. 18 press release on the results of the National Association of University and College Business Officers’ annual survey of school endowments: “Golden Era in University and College Endowments,” the organization trumpeted. “Institutions Hold More Than $150 […]
Posted inDecember 1997, Magazine
What the White House Tapes Really Show
The Keystone Kops behind the cameras.
Posted inMagazine, November 1997
You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe
JonBenet, Diana, the princess fantasy, and what it has done to women.
Posted inMagazine, October 1997
Why Mitch McConnell Should Know Better
Campaign finance reform’s No. 1 enemy need look no farther than his home state to see why money and politics don’t mix
Posted inMagazine, September 1997
Where Are the Good Guys When We Need Them?
While the public interest groups fiddle, campaign finance reform burns.
Posted inJuly 1997, Magazine
The Real Class War
When it comes to taxes, it’s the rich against the rest of us.
