Does This Kid Deserve 2 Years for Rap Lyrics?
Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman professor of law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes about everyday ethics, health, and the right to privacy for scholarly journals and the popular press.
When a rap he wrote as a teenager ended up on MySpace years later, Antavio Johnson found the police at his door-and now, he's been sentenced to two years' hard time for a song lyric.
A Censorship Test for China
Peter Osnos is a senior fellow for media at The Century Foundation. Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs Books. He is vice chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, a former publisher at Random House, and was a correspondent and editor at the Washington Post.
Peter Osnos peruses a Beijing bookstore and finds that they also read Lolita in Beijing-but Marx and Stalin collect dust.
Whether opining about the American political landscape, the economy, the war against Islamic fanaticism, or freedom of speech, Mark Steyn is brilliant, totally original, and absolutely hilarious. You can read his columns and hear his alw...
Monica Crowley is a radio and television political commentator based in New York. Since 2002, she's had her own nationally syndicated radio show, The Monica Crowley Show and is a regular commentator on The John Batchelor Show. She is a panelist for The McLaughlin Group, and she blogs at MonicaMemo.
Fighting Terrorism at Too High a Price
Aravind Adiga is the bestselling author of The White Tiger, which won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
Aravind Adiga, bestselling author of The White Tiger, on how the free and democratic country of Sri Lanka has become warped by its prolonged war on terror.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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