Author Archives: MZR

July 8, 2012, 11:52 pm By THOMAS B. EDSALL Menlo Park, Calif. It has become a campaign ritual. Immediately after the release of unemployment figures on the first Friday of every month, Democratic and Republican spin shifts into high gear. … Continue reading →

July 7, 2012 By ELIZABETH DUNN and MICHAEL NORTON HOW much money do you need to be happy? Think about it. What’s your number? Many of us aren’t satisfied with how much we have now. That’s why we’re constantly angling … Continue reading →

June 17, 2012 By MAUREEN DOWD EVERYONE is good, until we’re tested. We hope we would be Sir Thomas More in “A Man for All Seasons,” who dismisses his daughter’s pleas to compromise his ideals and save his life, saying: … Continue reading →

June 17, 2012 By FRANK BRUNI FRIENDSHIP brings such blessings. And such bargains! Only because of our closeness was President Obama willing to drop his asking price and offer me a picture and a moment with him on the cheap. … Continue reading →

by Jeff Einstein,  Thursday, June 14, 2012 8:57 AM The War Against the Click is very much en vogue these days among the digerati.   Apparently, digital marketers can no longer sell statistical zero to  increasingly wary (and weary) clients, and … Continue reading →

June 10, 2012, 8:33 pm By Diane Ackerman  Diane Ackerman on the natural world, the world of human endeavor and connections between the two. IT was a spring morning in upstate New York, one so cold the ground squeaked loudly … Continue reading →

June 11, 2012   By BILL KELLER WHAT’S the difference, I asked a tech-writer friend, between the billionaire media mogul Mark Zuckerberg and the billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch? When Rupert invades your privacy, my friend e-mailed back, it’s against … Continue reading →

Yale Student’s Final Essay Goes Viral After Fatal Car  Accident Marina Keegan’s ode to college life became her last  column ever after she was killed in a tragic car accident days after  graduation. By Megan Gibson  May 29,  2012 The … Continue reading →

Posted on May 18, 2012 By Chris Hedges In January, attorneys Carl Mayer and Bruce Afran asked me to be the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that challenged the harsh provisions … Continue reading →

by Jeff Einstein,  Thursday, May 3, 2012 9:07 AM  MEDIA POST Life in the digital 21st century is really a function of euphemizing  ourselves from cradle to grave.  Maybe that’s always been the case, but  today’s spinmeisters seem especially adroit … Continue reading →