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FLOUNDERING CHAIN

 How Arby's Lost Its Beefiness 

Don't blame recession: fast-food chain just isn't trying

10 hours, 45 minutes ago
opinion

 Honor Hero Cop: End 
 Ban on Women in Combat 

Time to wrap up the military's 'failed social experiment'

Nov 7, 09 10:15 AM CST
chinese double-bind

 No Sex Ed = 13M+ Abortions 

In China, sexual freedom not accompanied by information

Nov 5, 09 12:41 PM CST
SLIDESHOW


 How Skulls 
 Took Over 
 Fashion 

Once scary, now stylish, skulls are trendy—and not just at Halloween

Oct 30, 09 11:08 AM CDT
WHAT'S IN YOUR GARAGE?

 Why This Hot Rod Is Greener 
 Than a Prius 

You'll drive less frequently but enjoy it more

Oct 29, 09 6:45 PM CDT
music review

Bad News: Chris Brown's New Song Is Good

Is it OK to like the music but hate the abusive jerk behind it?

Oct 29, 09 1:56 PM CDT
Doug Kendall

Republicans Stonewall Obama's Judges

Procedural maneuvers help Senate GOP stall confirmation process

Oct 26, 09 2:13 PM CDT


 America's 
 Most 
 Powerful 
 Octogenarians 

Slate ranks the country's top old people

Oct 21, 09 4:25 PM CDT
OPINION

 It's Time to Stop Hating Creed 

They're reuniting, but listen before you groan

Oct 21, 09 11:29 AM CDT
OPINION

Tiny Coke Can
Is the New
'Light' Cigarette

Sneaky 'portion control' advertising blitz a cynical ploy: Saletan

Oct 19, 09 5:15 PM CDT
eliot spitzer

How to Kill the Chamber of Commerce...

...before its lobbyists
do more damage on climate change, etc.

Oct 15, 09 11:08 AM CDT
Tech Review

Google Wave Too Bloated, Complicated

And its much-touted live-typing turns out
to be a nightmare

Oct 14, 09 11:13 AM CDT
MUSIC REVIEW

 Paramore's Latest 
 One of Year's Best 

Group is a welcome 'throwback' and—thanks to Hayley Williams—soars

Oct 6, 09 10:42 PM CDT
OPINION

Don't Apologize, Meg, Voting
Is Dumb

Whitman's ballot wouldn't have made a difference anyway

Sep 30, 09 10:42 AM CDT

 Your Polanski Case FAQ 

Including the big one—why now?

Sep 29, 09 12:27 PM CDT
OPINION

 Nation at Odds? 
 Miley's 'Party' 
 to the Rescue 

Pop starlet's latest song is her best—and it could help heal a fractured nation

Sep 29, 09 12:13 PM CDT
ANALYSIS

Dentist Dropoff Leaves a Cavity

Fewer new grads,
more real teeth mean spiking costs could
drill consumers

Sep 28, 09 1:06 PM CDT
opinion

ACORN Video Sting a Lesson in New Journalism


Sep 24, 09 2:50 PM CDT
OPINION

 'Fat Tax' Is Really 
 a Poor Tax 


Sep 22, 09 1:17 PM CDT
OPINION

 Ivy League Crimes 
 Are More Equal 
 Than Others 

To grab headlines, commit or fall victim to murder at Harvard or Yale

Sep 18, 09 2:49 PM CDT

 Serena's Tirade: 
 What Would Her 
 Church Think? 

Jehovah's Witnesses no fans of cursing—but she won't face big trouble

Sep 16, 09 4:14 PM CDT

Goodbye, iPod; Hello, Portable Computer

Single-purpose devices' days are numbered: Manjoo

Sep 10, 09 5:32 PM CDT
OPINION

 Pearl Jam  
 Via Target? 
 It's a Brave  
 New World  

'The Fixer' is their best song in years, however you come by it

Sep 9, 09 7:34 PM CDT
OPINION

Let's Stop Giving Speeches, Start Twisting Arms, Obama

Health care votes are going to be won in the backroom, not at the podium

Sep 9, 09 12:37 PM CDT


RSS

Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

5
Nov 6, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry. It seems reasonable to assume from the intermittent decades of prosecution that this particular sort of financial larceny is quite a rare bird and when it rears its head the Feds pounce.... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad but Cute

10
Nov 5, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal.... More »

Skype Lives!

15
Nov 4, 09 | 8:33 AM BY Michael Wolff

I follow entrepreneurial dramas the way other people follow sports (did somebody win the World Series?). In these comedies, tragedies,... More »

Why the GOP Will Rise Again

25
Nov 3, 09 | 9:11 AM BY Michael Wolff

The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which occupies some other universe than the one... More »

Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America

21
Nov 2, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

Of all the outcomes of the 2008 presidential election, the strangest, beyond the rise of Sarah Palin herself, is the success of Levi Johnston.... More »

Why the Media Is Taking So Long to Die

17
Oct 30, 09 | 9:21 AM BY Michael Wolff

I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you... More »

How the Internet Got Lost and Why Google’s GPS Won’t Show Us the Way Out

11
Oct 29, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

I had lunch yesterday with my old friend and former colleague, Chip Bayers, who, 15 years ago this week, after having left my fledgling... More »

Pot Will Save Us

39
Oct 28, 09 | 11:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Wow. Pot. Just like that, on its way to being legalized. Well, just like that after 50 years or so. In order to save itself from financial... More »

Is Obama a Sleaze?

31
Oct 27, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

So it turns out there’s a reason the president hasn’t wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo,... More »

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