Hamilton Nolan · 09/17/12 08:45AM

USA Today publishes a Michael Wolff column about Tina Brown. Jurassic Park is real.

Stuart Stevens Is the Reason Mitt Romney's Campaign Is Terrible, According to Sources in the Romney Campaign

Taylor Berman · 09/16/12 11:07PM

According to multiple Romney sources cited in a damning Politico report, Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney's chief campaign strategist, is to blame for Romney's gaffe-laden campaign. The sources in the article, which includes the sort of shit flinging you'd expect to read after a candidate loses, not before, fault Stevens for Romney's mediocre speech and Clint Eastwood's spectacular performance art piece at the RNC, amongst other campaign snafus.

Maureen Dowd May Or May Not Be Anti-Semitic, Depending on Whom You Ask

Taylor Berman · 09/16/12 08:28PM

Maureen Dowd's column in today's New York Times created a mini-shit storm today, with several political pundits accusing her of using anti-Semitic imagery to make one of her typical points, which is that Romney is bad, etc. Basically, Dowd said Dan Senor, one of Romney's advisors, was a "neocon puppet master" who was trying to help neocons "slither back" into power. According to several "experts on American-Israeli relations," this sort of language is similar to ancient anti-Semitic imagery, like when Matt Taibbi called Goldman Sachs a vampire squid.

Taylor Berman · 09/16/12 06:12PM

The Chicago teachers union declined to vote on a proposed settlement, so the strike will continue into a second week.

Louis Peitzman · 09/16/12 12:42PM

Mitt Romney was forced to cancel his one campaign event this weekend when a plane crashed where he was supposed to land.

The Punks on G Street: Tracking Cuba's Rebellious Youth 50 Years After the Revolution

Julia Cooke · 09/16/12 10:00AM

I met Liván, Takeshi and the rest of their band of frikis—rock and metal fans of the punk-and-anarchist subcategory—around nine one Thursday night on the median of Havana's G Street. I'd come to Havana to write a book about what it was like to be a young adult in the post-Fidel city and, since G Street was the biggest party in town, it was where I began.