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Is Hillary Next?new

From Hillary Clinton's days as an intense, influential, and essentially inept co-president to husband Bill, to her establishment as a successful senator from New York, through the bitter trench warfare of the 2008 presidential primaries, and throughout her tenure as a majestic secretary of state, I have always kept the words of my high-school history teacher Dan Leary in mind.
Boston Phoenix  |  PETER KADZIS  |  09-29-2012  |  Politics

The High Cost of Free Marketsnew

A lack of regulation invites oil spills and financial collapse.
Boston Phoenix  |  Peter Kadzis  |  05-21-2010  |  Commentary

'The Publisher': Twilight of the Superheroesnew

The ghost of Time Inc.’s Henry Luce haunts Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times.
Boston Phoenix  |  Peter Kadzis  |  04-29-2010  |  Nonfiction

Is Murdoch's WSJ Being Snubbed?new

This year’s Pulitzer Prize box score has the Washington Post taking four prizes and the New York Times snagging three. For the Wall Street Journal, this year's Pulitzer Prizes marks another distinction: another year (the third consecutive) the WSJ hasn't gotten one.
Boston Phoenix  |  Peter Kadzis  |  04-14-2010  |  Commentary

Chief Justice John Roberts Should Be Impeachednew

It is time for an enterprising and courageous member of the US House of Representatives to file articles of impeachment against the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts. The charge: lying under oath. The case in question: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
Boston Phoenix  |  Peter Kadzis  |  02-04-2010  |  Commentary

Harvey Silverglate Dissects Federal Prosecutors' Corrupt Justicenew

In Three Felonies A Day, the civil liberties watchdog's thesis is as provocative as it is simple: justice has become sufficiently perverted in this nation that federal prosecutors, if they put their minds to it, could find a way to indict almost any one of us for almost anything.
Boston Phoenix  |  Peter Kadzis  |  09-23-2009  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

The Iranian Uprising: Tiananmen 2.0?new

It took several weeks for the demonstrations in Tianamen Square to elicit international attention in 1989. Today, as hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Iran, we are marveling at the new tools of social networking and political orchestration.
Boston Phoenix  |  Peter Kadzis  |  06-18-2009  |  Commentary

P.J. O'Rourke Talks Cars, 'Driving'new

Driving like Crazy is travel writing in the classic tradition of Robert Byron.
Boston Phoenix  |  Peter Kadzis  |  06-18-2009  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

China, Tibet, and the Olympicsnew

Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman explains the Dalai Lama's political wisdom, the myopia of the Chinese, and the essence of the Olympics.
Boston Phoenix  |  Peter Kadzis  |  08-07-2008  |  International

The Three Trillion Dollar Warnew

Original estimates of between $50 to $60 billion were, at best, optimistic guesses about what the Iraq war would cost. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses the punishing cost of staying the course any longer.
Boston Phoenix  |  Peter Kadzis  |  03-13-2008  |  War

America's Nero: Bush's Impeachable Failurenew

President Bush has utterly failed to take charge and lead in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, the worst national disaster to savage the nation, devastating the Gulf coast and threatening to turn New Orleans, a historic and soulful city, into a 21st century Pompeii. Nero at least fiddled while Rome burned. As Katrina roared, Bush vacationed.
Boston Phoenix  |  Stephen Mindich and Peter Kadzis  |  09-06-2005  |  Disasters

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