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NEWS ABOUT: Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan stories: 14 news summaries
SURPRISE, SURPRISE

 Sullivan Back; Still Hates Palin 

Calls her book 'manifesto for the imagined life'

Nov 19, 09 8:49 PM CST
(Newser) - The notoriously Sarah Palin-obsessed Andrew Sullivan has restarted his Atlantic blog after taking time off to read her book, and, not surprisingly, he found it ridiculous. “It is,” he writes, “a manifesto for the imagined life of an imagined Sarah Palin as a leader for all those... More »

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Andrew Sullivan • blogger • Sarah Palin Going Rogue • obsession

Sullivan Silences Atlantic Blog to Dissect Palin Book

He sees possibility of a 'huge scandal' and needs time to get it right

Nov 18, 09 6:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Readers of Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog will have to be patient: The site has "gone silent" for only the second time in its 10-year run so Sullivan and his two assistants can devote all their time to dissecting Sarah Palin's new book. "There is a possibility here... More »

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Andrew Sullivan • blogger • Sarah Palin • Sarah Palin Going Rogue • Sarah Palin book

ANDREW SULLIVAN


 'The Wasilla 
 Whack-Job' 
 Reads My 
 Blog! 

Sarah Palin's threat of a libel suit goes a bit awry

Nov 15, 09 4:14 PM CST
(Newser) - Back in the day, public figures were cautioned not to pick fights with people who bought ink by the barrel—namely, newspaper publishers. In the age of the blogger, it's more important to guard against fueling your antagonists with the 21st-century version of ink: attention. Paging Sarah Palin: "The... More »

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Alaska • libel • Andrew Sullivan • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Atlantic Monthly • Wasilla • Bristol Palin • Trig Palin

(Newser) - When the editors and writers at the Onion AV Club aren’t working—which appears to be often—they have their own “favorite time-wasting” websites to frequent. A sampling:
  • CNN: "They’ve got some news there that you can read and junk," Nathan Rabin
... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • CNN • Andrew Sullivan • website • The Onion • procrastination • The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse • Geekologie • Fuckyeahanimalswithcasts

(Newser) - The blogosphere might not be the future of news sprung fully formed from the corpse of old media, Michael Massing writes in the New York Review of Books, but neither is it “parasite” feeding on newspapers. “The practice of journalism, far from being leeched by the Web, is... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • newspaper • blogging • Andrew Sullivan • New York Review of Books • old media • breaking news

(Newser) - With liberals and anti-war activists growing increasingly restive over recent Obama decisions, Andrew Sullivan takes a hard look at the choice of Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal—a man with links to prisoner abuse, Camp Nama, and the Tillman debacle—to lead the war in Afghanistan. It looks like the latest... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • torture • Pakistan • Andrew Sullivan • Stanley McChrystal

GLOSSIES

There's Method to Andrew Sullivan's Madness

... But conservatives, gays can't figure it out

Apr 16, 09 8:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - At age 8, Andrew Sullivan asked his mother if God really was omniscient. Her affirmative reply terrified him: “Then there’s no hope for me, Mum.” Despite his success, conservatives, Catholics, and gay activists might agree—even though he belongs to each of their constituencies, Johann Hari writes... More »

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gay rights • gay marriage • Andrew Sullivan • Christian conservatives • Catholic • HIV/AIDS • conservatives

Iman Crosson for Prez...
on SNL: Bloggers

Should he be Fred Armisen's replacement?

Nov 27, 08 12:09 PM CST
(Newser) - The race to find a new comedian to impersonate president-elect Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live continues, reports ABC News, and bloggers such as Andrew Sullivan and Anovelista have the man for the job. Meet Iman Crosson, whose Obama imitations can be found on his YouTube AlphaCat channel. More »

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Saturday Night Live • Barack Obama • politics • parody • humor • Andrew Sullivan • comedian • Fred Armisen • impersonator • Iman Crosson

OPINION

Despite Prop. 8, Gay Rights Will Prevail: Sullivan

All civil-rights struggles have setbacks, gay Atlantic scribe reminds

Nov 5, 08 3:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Though news of California banning gay marriage is “heart-breaking,” Andrew Sullivan takes solace in the progress that has been achieved for gay rights, he writes for the Atlantic. Marriages, like Sullivan’s own, performed in Massachusetts or Connecticut are still valid. The California initiative can be rolled back,... More »

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Barack Obama • gay rights • Massachusetts • Connecticut • civil rights • Andrew Sullivan • Proposition 8

ANALYSIS

Blogger's Pursuit of Paternity Issue Verges on Vendetta

Atlantic's Sullivan engaging in 'Rove-style politics,' critics charge

Sep 24, 08 3:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Andrew Sullivan, blogger for the Atlantic, has come under fire for hammering John McCain’s campaign on an issue everyone else seems to have gotten over: whether or not Sarah Palin or her teen daughter Bristol is the mother of 4-month-old Trig Palin, Howard Kurtz writes in the Washington Post.... More »

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Karl Rove • blog • Andrew Sullivan • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • conservatives • Trig Palin

(Newser) - The California Supreme Court’s landmark decision in May to grant gays the right to marry is based on a simple but inevitable idea, Andrew Sullivan writes in the Atlantic: Gay marriage is just marriage, and gay people are no different than straight people. As homosexuality moved from being considered... More »

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gay marriage • marriage • court • Andrew Sullivan • The Atlantic

OPINION

Journo 'Ecstatic' Over Demise of HIV Travel Ban

'Massive burden lifted' for gay, HIV-positive
Brit Sullivan

Jul 17, 08 3:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - HIV-positive journalist Andrew Sullivan is “ecstatic” over yesterday's passage by the Senate of a bill that would lift a US ban on visitors and immigrants with the virus that causes AIDS, he writes in his Atlantic blog. "I'm not exaggerating when I say that it's one of the... More »

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immigration • gay rights • Senate • citizenship • Andrew Sullivan • HIV travel ban

OPINION

US Must
End Ban on HIV-Positive Immigrants

Andrew Sullivan uses own case as example

May 14, 08 6:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US is one of only 12 countries (including Sudan, Moldova and Libya) that flouts UN law by barring HIV-positive visitors or immigrants—and the restriction must end, writes Andrew Sullivan in the Washington Post. The HIV-positive Sullivan, a senior editor at Atlantic magazine, remains in the US only with... More »

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immigration • discrimination • Andrew Sullivan • HIV/AIDS • George W. Bush

Why Small Government
Has Collapsed

Prospect writer says Dems can drown movement in bathtub

Aug 8, 07 6:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats have never been so well positioned to sell big-government liberalism—as the other side looks pathetically out of step with Americans’ desires to expand health care and bolster infrastructure, says the American Prospect’s Paul Waldman. After the Minnesota bridge collapse, the public is ready for the party that... More »

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health care • Hillary Clinton • Democrats • health insurance • Americans • SCHIP • infrastructure • Andrew Sullivan • George W. Bush

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