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In the wee small hours of this morning, the Washington Post's website posted (and the newspaper itself printed) an obituary for W. Mark Felt, the former FBI associate director who, in 2005, was identified by himself and the Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as...

In last week's  New Yorker, deputy "Talk of the Town" editor Lauren Collins set up a story about Ivy Leaguers in the Obama administration ---"Team of Brainiacs"--- by stirring up some trouble over one of the recently released Nixon tapes.  Ms. Collins refers to the 18...

At the Huffington Post Glynnis Macnicol, editor at FishbowlNY.com, polls a number of notables (including Salman Rushdie, Fred Armisen and Ana Marie Cox) about their favorite recent reading.  Jon Meacham, editor-in-chief of Newsweek (and author of the recent biography...

Last week the marketing offensive for F/N finally embraced The Colbert Report.  Host Steven Colbert had originally thought the movie was about RN teaming up with Jack Frost to save Christmas. He was disabused of this notion by his guest Kevin Bacon, who plays RN's...

In today's WAPO Eli Saslow writes a profile of Jon Favreau --- at 27 the youngest person ever to be named head of the White House speechwriting shop. This is certainly a more dignified appearance than the last time Mr. Favreau surfaced in the blatts.  But buried in...

The January issue of Smithsonian magazine features an article by James Reston Jr., whose book The Conviction Of Richard Nixon was an important source for the play and film Frost/Nixon (and who was portrayed in the play as the onstage narrator of the proceedings,...

Wonkette has just posted ---with the usual snarky commentary under the headline "Richard Nixon Just Called To Say he Loves You"--- a tape of RN's conversation with the White House Operator on 25 December 1971.  It was, of course, RN's long-time habit to place calls to...

The New York Times' coverage of Caroline Kennedy's first outing as a Senate candidate  can hardly be what the Ms. Kennedy or her supporters had in mind. In fact, the story's headline ---In Appearance Upstate, Kennedy Says Little--- is really quite generous because it...

Several years ago, David Cornwell (better known by his nom de plume, John Le Carré) told an interviewer that, “espionage was not really something exclusive and clandestine. It was actually the currency of the Cold War. Spies were the poor bloody infantry of the Cold...

Jonah Goldberg's column today applies some belated common sense to current events: The freakout is understandable. Economic trust is breaking down. Investors are buying Treasury bills that pay no interest because they're scared to leave their money even in insured...