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June 15, 1998
Punchin' Judy

TV's newest Oprah-beater is a tough-talking former Family Court judge from Brooklyn who likes to take the high moral ground. Is Judge Judy the anti-Springer?

May 1, 2000
Dot-Com Bomb

We've all been waiting for the next Great Web Wipeout. But the Orwellian technology geeks never imagined the fuse would be lit by an old-media magazine article.

August 25, 2003
This Isn't War

(Yet.) The liberal power elite I hobnobbed with in Aspen seems terminally short on passion—with one tough-talking, very angry exception: Bill Clinton.

January 24, 2000
Happy New Media

The AOL-Time Warner merger has everyone shell-shocked. Is this as big as it looks, Munich Pact big? And where is the reporter from the corporate-state desk?

May 17, 1999
Why Your Kids Know More About the Future Than You Do

Is the Internet changing kids in mysterious, potentially dangerous ways? Certainly. And soon enough, it will change you, too.

August 28, 2000
L.A. Nonstory

Nothing wrong with the conventions that turning off the cameras wouldn't fix. Admit they're sales meetings, not news events, and maybe even Al Gore'd look like a winner.

June 12, 2000
Parenting: Honey, I Wired The Kids

In our digital household -- which has the computing power of a small company -- the kids fight for cell-phone privileges, AOL accounts, and computer upgrades. Thank God my wife is chief information officer.

October 15, 2001
World Beat

Until September 11, the media didn't bother much with international news. Could it be because bad news is earnest, boring -- and incredibly hard to monetize?

January 12, 2004
Lord in Vain

When Conrad Black became a press lord, then a real lord, his ambition seemed to be to leave the sullied world of business behind. Nice try.

December 9, 2002
One Nation Under Fox

Earnest politics makes for bad TV -- which is why the scrappy, outsider, underdog approach championed by Fox News has made it the new psychic heart of the Republican Party.

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