Worst in 40 years?

Part of the reason I've been remembering and researching the events of 1968 is because I just have a feeling about this year's race...

New ways to get the news

I'm intrigued with today's story about the Bill Clinton rant against the author of the negative Vanity Fair story about him, record...

Blogging: a true reporter's calling

Miami Herald columnist Fred Grimm, in his new blog The Grimm Truth , makes a statement about journalism and blogging that strikes true to me...

Posting the pictures

One of the things I miss most about reading newspapers online is getting to see all the pictures, in a size where you can make out detail. M...

On libraries and the news

In the upcoming issue of New York Review of Books: The Library in the New Age , by Robert Darnton. This discussion of how information is dis...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) At the beginning of June, it was starting to feel as though the world was falling apart...

A few research links

New York Times coverage of national political conventions, 1896-1996 . Agflation: The real costs of rising food prices , news and data from...