Ted Haggard

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Profiles in frottage

The EDC strikes out; 'A massage that went awry'; Refudiating Palin
Frottage, noun : masturbation by rubbing up against another person.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | July 28, 2010

When a person in the center of a media maelstrom has had a sex change, is it fair game for the press?
Aiden Quinn used to be a woman. Now he's a man. It's a titillating detail — but is it news?
By ADAM REILLY | May 20, 2009

A tragicomedy of errors

In an excerpt from his new book, The Fall of the House of Bush, author Craig Unger details how Bush is, well, screwing up the world
It was not until after George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were narrowly re-elected that many Americans began to realize that the Iraq War represented a dangerous moment in American history.
By CRAIG UNGER | November 20, 2007

Backlash blues

Will the Larry Craig scandal bolster anti-gay bias?
Most big news stories fit the snowball metaphor, with an isolated fact or two slowly gaining significance and momentum over a period of days or weeks.
By ADAM REILLY | September 06, 2007

Dance Monkey: Lizz Winstead

A visiting comic in the hot seat
It will be called Harry Pott-him .
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | July 16, 2007

Holy War!

A new army of atheists is taking no prisoners in its battle with God and his self-appointed faith dealers
There’s no doubt about it: right now, God is on the side of the atheists.
By JAMES PARKER | June 06, 2007

What’s the link between religion and sex scandals?

Moral nation
Does the heady scent of burning incense, the glow of blazing candles, and the moan of a church organ cause some to fall from the high ground of propriety, fidelity, and chastity?
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | January 03, 2007

Goodbye, cruel America

An in-death eulogy for 2006
Toward the end of 2006, we woke up to the glad news that Chile’s former strongman Augusto Pinochet had saved everyone the trouble of hanging his sickly carcass for war crimes and atrocities by dying of a heart attack.
By CLIF GARBODEN | December 20, 2006

My Ellen Willis

Making sense of a woman who was always two or three steps ahead of the Zeitgeist
When I was a queer teenager in suburban New Jersey in the early 1960s, I decided that I wanted to be Susan Sontag.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | November 30, 2006

Not that there’s anything wrong with that

Big media’s big gay baggage
Want to make the mainstream press squirm? Suggest that a major public figure is gay.
By ADAM REILLY | November 21, 2006

Until there’s nothing left of us

Politics and other mistakes
Hey, all you Maine Republicans wallowing in self-pity, after losing the election: snap out of it.
By AL DIAMON | November 15, 2006

Windbags of change

A front-row seat at the midterm elections
Regardless of which major party sits astride Capitol Hill, Washington is a conservative city. Not in ideological terms, mind you.
By CHRIS LEHMANN | November 08, 2006

Satire versus spoof

Gina Gionfriddo’s After Ashley ; A.R. Gurney’s Screen Play
The American media have long pigged out on titillation and tragedy. And in After Ashley , Gina Gionfriddo has written a frighteningly funny work about that particular eating disorder.
By CAROLYN CLAY | November 08, 2006