Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

Thanks to Phil Weiss for noting this terrific profile of Haaretz by Stephen Glain in The Nation. Every Israeli newspaper has its own functional niche in the country’s media marketplace and both Maariv and Yediot each have important columnists. But there really is no paper quite like Haaretz for the breadth of its [...]

Oh please God, just what the blog world needs: Martin Peretz. David Carr, in his too solicitous profile of The New Republic lets us in on the secret. The pro-Israel hack who “never met an Israeli military offensive he didn’t like” (Carr’s words, my beliefs precisely) will join the blog world next week. [...]