The Wisdom of Paula Broadwell
As his now-notorious biographer noted months ago, David Petraeus is only "human at the end of the day." More »
James Warren is the Chicago editor of the Daily Beast/Newsweek and an MSNBC analyst. He's former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune. More
James Warren is a former manager, editor and Washington bureau chief of The Chicago Tribune. An ink-stained wretch, he's labored at The Newark Star-Ledger, The Chicago Sun-Times, and the Tribune in a variety of positions, including financial reporter, legal affairs reporter-columnist, labor writer, media writer-columnist and features editor. The Washingtonian once tagged him one of the town's 50 most influential journalists (he thinks he was 46, the number worn by Andy Pettitte, a pitcher for his beloved New York Yankees). He's a political analyst for MSNBC. He was recently publisher and president of the Chicago Reader, and is now policy columnist for Business Week and twice-a-week Chicago columnist for The New York Times (you can find his handiwork on the paper's website and on new Chicago pages produced for Friday's and Sunday's Midwest print editions by the nonprofit Chicago News Cooperative, which he held to start). A native New Yorker, he's a happy resident of the wonderful, if ethically challenged, City of Chicago, where he lives just north of decaying Wrigley Field with his Pulitzer Prize-winning wife, Cornelia, and their sons, Blair and Eliot. Blair's t-ball team is, yes, the Yankees.
As his now-notorious biographer noted months ago, David Petraeus is only "human at the end of the day." More »
The failed Missouri candidate isn't the only one with a twisted conception of rape. Our laws about force and consent need a major revamp. More »
At Obama headquarters, a Person in the Know says a Romney victory would be one of the "most amazing political stories" of the past 100 years. More »
Forget Sandy, ignore ground game. If you want to know why this election is such a nail-biter, look to this one statistic. More »
As the philosopher Michael Sandel notes, this isn't just a practical question, but an ethical one. More »
No, it's not the unemployment rate. More »
Romney's performance in debate might make a difference... if the debates actually mattered. More »
A cure for political polarization? New research gives some hope. More »
Rahm Emanuel faces an insurmountable hurdle: People generally like their kids' teachers More »
In an era when public untruths wind up as one- or two-line bulletin on our smart phones, how do we break the cycle of lying and public forgetting? More »
Or is it? A staple genre of the new media leaves us to wonder. More »
The Chinese activist would find a very different world at the Manhattan institution. More »
Yes, the upcoming biography of the president goes into the details of his love life as a young man. But it really dives much deeper than that. More »
The public is at odds with seemingly smart transportation proposals. But to move forward, we need to forget the status quo. More »
What academia can teach us about politics More »
A fearless social observer admits unease while being interviewed on the comedy talk show. More »
Even when they identify as right-leaning, black voters still overwhelmingly favor the Democratic Party. Academics say there's a way forward for the GOP. More »
He should have quit while he was ahead: Once a right-hand man for the governor of Illinois, John Harris now works as an electrician at night and faces jail time. More »
The Congressional hearing on the Saints' bounty scandal is not unprecedented—Teddy Roosevelt shaped the rules of college gridiron. More »
It's a new Mitt after yesterday's win in Illinois -- and a fresh reminder for Obama's Chicago-based reelection team of the challenge ahead of them. More »
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