Eric Alterman

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.