In Dick We Trust
May 25, 2015
We already know how Republicans will run against Hillary Clinton, because Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus is busily banging that drum.
Marty Kaplan
Marty Kaplan holds the Norman Lear Chair at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His Jewish Journal columns have won First Place in the Southern California Journalism Awards six times in the past six years. Reach him at martyk@jewishjournal.com
Kyle Clark, Brandon Rittiman should moderate all the debates
May 11, 2015
Here’s Kyle Clark grilling Republican Cory Gardner, who went on to oust Mark Udall from his Colorado senate seat in 2014
The Washington Dread and Denial Association
April 27, 2015
Stories, whether torn from history or made from whole cloth, can make us want to shout that. Don’t open that door at the top of the stairs. Don’t get on that boat. Don’t believe that president, general, journalist, preacher, cop.
Pharoah said ‘no.’ You won’t believe what God did next.
April 2, 2015
Once, at our seder, our friend Ira gave a running commentary on the haggadah, offering a scientific explanation for every miracle and wonder in the Exodus story.
Schmaltz is gluten free
March 16, 2015
If the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is saying that Kraft Singles are good for us, surely schmaltz is next.
Marty Kaplan: What matters to me & why
March 13, 2015
I began making a list of what matters to me. Intellectual curiosity. Climate change. The First Amendment. My family. Giving back. One friend said to me, I know what I’d say: Money. Another friend told me: Those talks can be surprisingly honest.
Leonard Nimoy’s good mother
March 1, 2015
“Oh, by the way, Leonard,” I say into the phone, as breezily as I can feign, “what did you think about Diane’s belt?”
Hollywood’s necessary not-niceness
February 17, 2015
The billion people who will watch the 2015 Academy Awards got a great gift last week from Amy Pascal, the recently fired co-chair of Sony Pictures, who said this to Tina Brown at a Women in the World conference in San Francisco:
How satire happens
January 12, 2015
On May 4, 1970, when 29 Ohio National Guardsmen shot 67 rounds of ammunition at a group of unarmed Kent State University students protesting Richard Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia, killing four students and wounding nine others, I was the president of the Harvard Lampoon, the nation’s oldest college humor magazine.
My new favorite news network is not liberal (and not Fox)
January 5, 2015
This may be the kiss of death, but One America News is my new favorite TV news network.
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