Illustration by Victor Juhasz Peter Kaplan, who was editor of the New York Observer from 1994 right up until 2009, died past month. On the improbability of particular political personalities: “There’s a massive guy somewhere up in the clouds tapping a cigar and coming up with names that Spielberg could never ever aspiration of—names like […]

Photo: RD/Leon/Retna/Corbis Roger Ailes has spent much of his life in New York City—but he’s never considered himself a New Yorker. For most of his career, home was a place in the mind—a fantasized version of Warren, Ohio, the town where he spent his boyhood in the forties and fifties. But a few years ago, […]

A mild rain fell as I fought as a result of a sea of masked fighters for a glimpse into the heart ring. From a handful of feet absent, I watched as two area fighters struck at every single other with their bare fists. Hundreds of spectators stood in the stadium bleachers surrounding the battling […]

Illustration by Tony Millionaire In May well 1974, Roger Ailes got his initial television-news task as a PR marketing consultant at a fledging community named TVN, founded to battle the perceived liberal consensus of the Major 3. Ailes, in spite of his inexperience, was promoted to information director 4 months later on. In a 1975 […]