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The POTUSE has named Elizabeth Alexander as the Poet Laureate of his Inauguration.  She will join the select company of poets ---Robert Frost (JFK), Maya Angelou (Clinton '93), and Miller Williams (Clinton '97)--- who have read the poems they wrote at the Inauguration...

It's hard to resist capitalizing that that word when writing on this subject and this newspaper. That said, the reaction of Washington Post writers to the death of W. Mark Felt, who unveiled himself in 2005 as "Deep Throat," has been, a little surprisingly, not...

As readers of his book about the 1950 Senate election in California (Tricky Dick And The Pink Lady) know, Editor & Publisher editor-in-chief Greg Mitchell is far from being a fan of the 37th President. But, as this article shows, he is aware, from personal...

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,...