Opinion: Top 10: Strike, ‘68, China and Macaca in special double issue
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John Ridley took home our top score for the week with his fiery fi-core fussilade. Strike stuff dominated the top 10, in fact, while Patt Morrison’s modest proposal and Elizabeth Larsen’s adoption article prove that everybody loves a mom in trouble. (Look for former WGA head Frank Pierson to give Ridley whatfor in Blowback, and keep reading for the previous week’s top 10, by the way.) Here are the details:
1. John Ridley goes fi-core, by John Ridley 2. Leno writes a wrong, by Meghan Daum 3. Democracy: inevitable no more, by Madeleine K. Albright 4. Britney’s law? Not so crazy, by Patt Morrison 5. Writers strike is war, by the editorial board 6. Israel’s false friends, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt 7. The ‘pocket veto’ peril, by Robert J. Spitzer 8. How to remember 1968, by Todd Gitlin9. A sequel with the same ending, by Thom Taylor10. The adoption quandary, by Elizabeth Larsen
Much more fiber in our previous-week results, with foreign policy, the real estate bust, immigration and even a 2007 know-it-all test dominating. As always, thanks for reading Opinion L.A. and we hope to keep on pleasin’...
1. The great fall of China, by Walter Russell Mead2. Aunt Benazir’s false promises, by Fatima Bhutto3. George Allen’s curse, by Dan Schnur4. A dynasty isn’t a democracy, by Rosa Brooks5. How to survive the bust, by various writers6. Beyond Benazir, by the editorial board7. A year of living dangerously, by Paul Slansky8. Is anyone listening? by Tamar Jacoby9. The Benazir I knew, by Amy Wilentz10. And you don’t want to know what’s going to happen to Britney, by Joel Stein