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Review: Fair Game

Naomi Watts and Sean Penn tell the real Valerie Plame story
Naomi Watts and Sean Penn tell the real Valerie Plame story
By PETER KEOUGH | November 03, 2010

Four to watch for

From Cannes to the multiplex
These Cannes-debuting films will soon be appearing in your local neighborhood googleplex.
By LISA NESSELSON | May 26, 2010

The Cannes 2010 jury picks some winners, but some head-scratchers, too
Apichatpong Weerasethakul must have done something right in one or more of his previous incarnations.
By LISA NESSELSON | May 28, 2010

Cheney's latest crime

Plus, Coakley's welcome move against DOMA
As if there were any doubt, the latest CIA scandal once again reminds the nation that whatever former vice-president Dick Cheney touched turned to slime.
By EDITORIAL | July 15, 2009

Man of the Century

The late, great Bo Diddley helped put Lupo’s on the map
Bo Diddley, a particular favorite of Lupo, was the first “name” performer to play the club.
By PHILLIPE + JORGE | June 04, 2008

The amazing race

We break down the Presidential campaign to its six essential parts, and predict your next Commander-in-Chief.
For the past year, presidential politics has been building to the crescendo that is the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 26, 2007

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

Legislature moves to protect Maine journalists

Shield law
“The very fact that the court would grant a motion like this, when there’s no suit pending,” she says. “You’ve got to be kidding me.”
By JEFF INGLIS | October 17, 2007

War, peace, and Robert Pinsky

The season's fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
Every few years, a fall publishing season emerges that should remind us that Boston could be the literary epicenter of America.
By JOHN FREEMAN | September 12, 2007

The last Potter

What does the end mean for Harry’s strange Boston disciples?
The end is never easy, is it?
By SHARON STEEL | July 24, 2007

The many reasons for Liquarry Jefferson’s death

Responsibility for gun control begins at home and extends all the way to the federal government
As of press time, it appears that a 15-year-old left his handgun where a seven-year-old picked it up and killed an eight-year-old with it.
By EDITORIAL | June 27, 2007

The debates so far

Why the Republican performance is so dangerous
Watching the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates debate this week in New Hampshire leaves an uncomfortable but undeniable impression.
By EDITORIAL | June 06, 2007

The 100 unsexiest men 2007: 30-21

These guys couldn't turn on a radio
These guys couldn't turn on a radio
By | April 12, 2007

Worst in breed: Newsmakers

The 100 Unsexiest men 2007
Who are the unsexiest newsmaking men of 2007?
By PHOENIX STAFF | April 12, 2007

Innocent abroad

Their woman in Baghdad
Last week, political humor Web site Wonkette.com urged Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to kidnap an American journalist.
By ADAM REILLY | April 04, 2007

Pressing the case

A limited federal shield law would be better than the post-Libby status quo
In the aftermath of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s perjury conviction last week, the journalistic fallout of the case remains a subject of intense interest for reporters and legal observers.
By JIM TARICANI | March 14, 2007

A split personality

Recent events suggest that there are two sides to Governor Deval Patrick
It is time for the new governor to smarten up.
By EDITORIAL | March 07, 2007

The GOP lurches rightward

McCain, Romney, and Giuliani are all morphing into extremists — and that can only benefit the Democrats
Did the Republican presidential candidates see something in the 2006 midterm elections that everyone else missed?
By EDITORIAL | February 21, 2007

Taking stock of an imperiled free press

News you can lose
Frontline ’s new PBS series on the shifting balance-of-power between the government and the media — New War: Secrets, Spin and the Future of the News — isn’t uplifting. Far from it. But it’s essential viewing for anyone interested in the future of a free US press.
By ADAM REILLY | February 07, 2007

An empty gesture

Why Menino’s police reform is a bad joke
Boston mayor Thomas Menino’s plan for a panel of three civilians to review complaints about the police is vintage Menino. And that, sad to say, is not a compliment.
By EDITORIAL | September 05, 2006

Keep the Internet free and open to all

Plus: Bush’s war, Kerry’s call to get out, and Clinton’s silence
The Internet may not be free for much longer. The Broadband, "God Save the Internet" (mp3) "The Death of the Internet." Commentary by COANews.org Support the Internet Freedom Preservation Act? Email your senator.
By EDITORIAL | June 15, 2006

Is the bloom off the Turd?

Karl Rove does New Hampshire
Karl Rove was in trouble. Or so it seemed just a few days ago, when the Man Liberals Love to Hate trekked to New Hampshire to address the state’s GOP.
By ADAM REILLY | June 14, 2006

Watch what you say

Politics and other mistakes
I’m fond of tourists. For a while, I kept a pair in the basement as pets.
By AL DIAMON | May 10, 2006

The new McCarthyism

Bush tries to scare the wits out of whistle blowers — and the press
We were going to write in praise of fired CIA official Mary O. McCarthy for her assumed role in leaking the details of the Bush Administration’s network of overseas secret prisons for captured terrorist suspects, but then the admirable lady threw a monkey wrench into our plans by denying that she had done so.
By EDITORIAL | April 26, 2006

Dr. John in Arlington

Food for thought
Visits to the area by essential New Orleans singer/songwriter/pianist/producer/ Mac “Dr. John” Rebennack have become such regular events that they hardly qualify as news.
By JON GARELICK | February 18, 2006

Hunting with Cheney

It’s no surprise that “Big Time” poses a danger to others
That Dick “Sure Shot” Cheney lacked a necessary stamp for shooting quail when he accidentally plugged one of his hunting buddies sounds about right.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | February 16, 2006

The Gray Lady in shadow

Could publication of the domestic-spying story lead to indictment of the New York Times ?
Fearful that his presidency could be swept into the same historical dustbin as Richard Nixon’s, an unrepentant President George W. Bush seems intent on prosecuting the sources who leaked to the New York Times the details of his administration’s warrantless domestic spying.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | January 17, 2006

The wrong stuff

These should be the best of times for Democrats. So how will they blow it in 2006? Let us count the ways
You can’t blame Democrats for feeling optimistic. In 2005, George W. Bush staggered through as rough a stretch as any modern president has experienced.
By DAN KENNEDY | December 29, 2005