Jamie Malanowski

Month: July 2013

SOUTHERN SOJOURN: NEWPORT NEWS, JULY 10

The Maritime Museum at Newport News is just splendid. The museum has a lot of terrific artifacts, including the pricelss eafle figurehead from the USS Lancaster, and a whole exhibit on Nelson and his battles at Copenhagen, the Nile and Trafalgar. The highlight is the the terrific exhibit on the Monitor and the Virginia, including …

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WEINER CHANNELS KOCH

(This article originally appeared on washingtonmonthly.com on July 6th.) The New York political campaign season is designed so that the optimistic hothouses of polling firms and campaign consultancies can cultivate exotic candidacies in March and April, and the unremitting glares of voters can cause them to wilt them on the hot, unforgiving sands of Orchard …

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HOW GOOD DO WE WANT OUR POLICEMEN TO BE?

(This piece originally appeared on washingtonmonthly.com on July 7th.) It seems to me that the two potentially big outrage stories of the spring—the politicized IRS story and the data-mad NSA story—now have two things in common. First, they have both petered out as little or no evidence of nefarious activity has been discovered. Second, both …

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