Why Does Vicious Media Persecute Poor Alex Rodriguez? It Couldn’t Be His Salary or His Blonde—Look at the Mick!— Says the Great Buster Olney: ‘Wow! The Line Had Been Moved’.

Taxes, weight gain, depression, loneliness—book advances are like lottery payoffs.

After reading Christopher Hitchens’ polemic, God Is Not Great, I’m left with one question. What does God have to do with any of the crimes, abuses, brutalities and other atrocities which Mr. Hitchens offers as proof of heavenly mediocrity?

For four days, booksellers, book lovers, book publishers and book grabbers descended on New York to … what? Meet God, check out wildlife, spy shrunken heads and otherwise distract themselves from their struggling industry.

Campaign Doctor Says Of Obama’s Big Plan: ‘Where’s the Rest of It?’

Why the press has to play along with Bloomberg ’08.

Chuck’s flack will join an ex-Spitzer aide at Global Strategy Group.

Alireza Jafarzadeh, a man who is intimately linked with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (M.E.K.), is currently—at least in the minds of skeptics—playing a role akin to that performed by Ahmed Chalabi in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.