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28 Oct 2009
« Cover story Oct. 28, 2009
The right-wing megastar embodies American popular culture at its most weird and offensive.
28 Oct 2009
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
26 Aug 2009
« Cover story Aug. 26, 2009
When the subject is race, a candid, balanced opinion offends nearly everyone in this polarized, traumatized country.
26 Aug 2009
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
15 Apr 2009
« Cover story Apr. 15, 2009
Our gun dealers arm all the butchers, torturers and beheaders of Ciudad Juárez.
15 Apr 2009
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
29 Oct 2008
« Cover story Oct. 29, 2008
The Democratic Party, the U.S. Senate, the state of North Carolina, America, the legal profession, everything that ever provided him with an identity is going on without him.
29 Oct 2008
(Elections: The Election Page)
30 Jul 2008
« Cover story Jul. 30, 2008
What's wrong with Obama? Not much that I can see, not compared to what's wrong with you if you think his election is a threatening proposition.
30 Jul 2008
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
16 Apr 2008
« Cover story Apr. 16, 2008
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"—we promise them all a decent burial.
16 Apr 2008
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
13 Feb 2008
« Cover story Feb. 13, 2008
Trading Lincoln's legacy for the Southern strategy
13 Feb 2008
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
17 Oct 2007
« Cover story Oct. 17, 2007
Staring "At -30-" square in the face
17 Oct 2007
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
4 Jul 2007
The Bush administration is a cadaver decomposing on America's doorstep—yet no one will take responsibility for it, no one will give it a decent burial, no one even has the courage to step over it and try to get on with a nation's decent business.
4 Jul 2007
(News: Feature)
14 Mar 2007
Her brand of commentary—intimate, indiscreet, defiantly regional, exuberantly scathing—does not survive her and will not be revisited in the corporatized, gadgetized, homogenized future of print journalism.
14 Mar 2007
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
3 Jan 2007
« Cover story Jan. 3, 2007
November 2006 was a month that historians will study in minute detail, day by day and headline by headline, when they attempt to reconstruct the iron chain of misery the United States has been forging for itself since September 2001.
3 Jan 2007
(News: Feature)
4 Oct 2006
« Cover story Oct. 4, 2006
The myth of Robin Hood is an ancient myth of universal appeal, one that must predate by many centuries the quasi-historical English bandit of the 12th century whose exploits were as familiar to my childhood as the miracles of Jesus Christ.
4 Oct 2006
(News: Feature)
28 Jun 2006
« Cover story Jun. 28, 2006
In the sports pages of the nation's newspapers, my home state of North Carolina is always well represented. In the news sections we rarely appear, unless some spectacular crime or criminal momentarily captures the tabloid imagination.
28 Jun 2006
(News: Feature)
26 Apr 2006
A legendary reporter, who took a crooked president's scalp and was once the torchbearer for every journalist who hoped to make a difference, has become, instead, a symbol of everything that's desperately wrong with the media culture in Washington, D.C.
26 Apr 2006
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
15 Feb 2006
« Cover story Feb. 15, 2006
Mile after mile, century upon century of monumental architecture, much of it in picturesque decay, recalls nothing so much as the pre-industrial Rome described by Keats and Shelley.
15 Feb 2006
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
16 Nov 2005
16 Nov 2005
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
21 Sep 2005
The priority now should be helping the victims and then figuring out how much of New Orleans' magic can be saved. But two things are certain: George W. is up to his Tony Lamas in toxic sludge, and the federal government's failures are testaments to incompetence and failed ideology—just as they are in Iraq.
21 Sep 2005
(News: Feature)
8 Jun 2005
The Bush administration's contemptuous nomination of John Bolton to represent America before the world shows what happens when ignorant, arrogant people with no principles come to power.
8 Jun 2005
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
2 Mar 2005
'The doughface will always be with us; in a democracy he’s the dead weight the rest of us will always be obliged to carry.'
2 Mar 2005
(News: Feature)
22 Dec 2004
A revolution of reason freed Prague 15 years ago—and the United States 228 years ago. Why are we moving in the opposite direction? Has any nation's intellectual history ever before run in reverse?
22 Dec 2004
(Columns: Hal Crowther)
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