The Times warmly passes along how the New York Public Library is paying $900,000 to buy the papers of hallucinogenic-drug promoter (and leftist radical) Timothy Leary.
Kate Zernike on Anthony Weiner, victim of Washington "puritanism"? "But technology keeps adding new and in many ways more seductive temptations to the mix. And this is happening at a time when, ...
Movie critic John Anderson exculpates a convicted domestic terrorist of the Earth Liberation Front: "Some would call Mr. McGowan overeager. The government calls him a terrorist....[Daniel] McGowan ...
Manohla Dargis's latest movie "spoiler" - another cri de couer about the lack of women on screen in summer movies: "Is there a lesson here for those big-studio executives who even now are reading ...
The paper's new op-ed columnist defends consumer crusader, bankruptcy expert, and liberal heroine Elizabeth Warren from Republican harassment of women: "It's official: Elizabeth Warren will return ...
Jim Rutenberg and William Yardley damn the former Alaska governor with faint praise: "She was also, in the years before her national emergence, more open to compromise and political dealing than ...
Michael Shear sounds bitter and mad at having to talk about Anthony Weiner: "Lots of policy and we're going to start with the sex scandal!" What did he write about the next two days? Sarah Palin's ...
"But for the increasingly intolerant minority who will decide the next Republican nominee, Huntsman is already a heretic for speaking common sense on climate change, gay civil unions and ...
Plus, Matt Bai deals two anti-GOP race cards and comes up a joker; tornadoes as economic stimulus; Anita Hill as role model for France; and columnist David Brooks falls victim to the damp squid.
