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Glenn Beck
The right-wing megastar embodies American popular culture at its most weird and offensive.
By Hal Crowther | 28 Oct 2009

Lessons from the Henry Louis Gates case
When the subject is race, a candid, balanced opinion offends nearly everyone in this polarized, traumatized country.
By Hal Crowther | 26 Aug 2009

Our gun dealers arm all the butchers, torturers and beheaders of Ciudad Juárez.
By Hal Crowther | 15 Apr 2009

White denial
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.
By Hal Crowther | 30 Jul 2008

One nation under guns
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"—we promise them all a decent burial.
By Hal Crowther | 16 Apr 2008

The elephants in the room
Trading Lincoln's legacy for the Southern strategy
By Hal Crowther | 13 Feb 2008

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Staring "At -30-" square in the face
By Hal Crowther | 17 Oct 2007

The Red Rose of Texas
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.
By Hal Crowther | 14 Mar 2007

Bob Woodward: A symbol of everything that’s desperately wrong with the media culture in Washington, D.C.
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.
By Hal Crowther | 26 Apr 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.
By Hal Crowther | 15 Feb 2006

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