On that unusually balmy Chicago night a year ago, the candidate who campaigned on what he called the "fierce urgency of now" became the president-elect who needed time.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Thomas Friedman is never short of a word or two.
William Safire, a onetime speechwriter for President Nixon who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, has died at age 79, the newspaper announced Sunday.
Author Frank McCourt, whose tragic childhood became creative grist for his first book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday, according to the Web site of his publisher, Simon & Shuster. He was 78.
The Pulitzer Prize winner, 78, is in a hospice, his brother says
Her name was Margaret. She had an answer for everything, even questions I didn't ask her. She dominated team meetings, nearly jumping out of her chair with "Look at me!"--type comments aimed directly at the boss.
A 14-year-old girl stoops and screams above the body of a Kent State University student killed in 1970 by an Ohio National Guardsman.
Drive through downtown Minneapolis these days and you're almost certain to bump into a billboard (or two or three) emblazoned with the title of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner's latest work, "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures."
The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2009 were announced Monday, with The New York Times capturing five of the awards.
(CNN) -- Horton Foote, the Pulitzer Prize- and Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died, according to officials at the Hartford Stage theater in Connecticut, where he was working on a production.
On that unusually balmy Chicago night a year ago, the candidate who campaigned on what he called the "fierce urgency of now" became the president-elect who needed time.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Thomas Friedman is never short of a word or two.
William Safire, a onetime speechwriter for President Nixon who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, has died at age 79, the newspaper announced Sunday.
Author Frank McCourt, whose tragic childhood became creative grist for his first book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday, according to the Web site of his publisher, Simon & Shuster. He was 78.
The Pulitzer Prize winner, 78, is in a hospice, his brother says
Her name was Margaret. She had an answer for everything, even questions I didn't ask her. She dominated team meetings, nearly jumping out of her chair with "Look at me!"--type comments aimed directly at the boss.
A 14-year-old girl stoops and screams above the body of a Kent State University student killed in 1970 by an Ohio National Guardsman.
Drive through downtown Minneapolis these days and you're almost certain to bump into a billboard (or two or three) emblazoned with the title of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner's latest work, "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures."
The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2009 were announced Monday, with The New York Times capturing five of the awards.
(CNN) -- Horton Foote, the Pulitzer Prize- and Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died, according to officials at the Hartford Stage theater in Connecticut, where he was working on a production.
Plus: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie react to their nominations
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, radio host and activist Studs Terkel died in his Chicago, Illinois, home Friday at the age of 96.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist Studs Terkel has died at age 96
The Christian Science Monitor said Tuesday it will become the first national newspaper to drop its daily print edition and focus on publishing online, succumbing to the financial pressure squeezing its industry harder than ever
It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a gathering at a picturesque mountaintop retreat where literary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since the 1920s.
Atlanta's East Lake community was a rough place to grow up in 1989, when murder, gangs, poverty, teen pregnancy and drug problems were common.
Though one of Rodgers & Hammerstein's most popular shows, South Pacific has remained untouched by the revival mania sweeping Broadway - until now.
Norman Mailer, perhaps the most towering figure in 20th-century American literature, died today of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City at the age of 84, his literary executor said.
With a new book the controversial author takes on the sacred ground of the terror attacks and their aftermath
He attracts the sort of accolades that writers usually get when they're dead. But at 74 Philip Roth is very much alive and producing work at an astounding rate.
I hesitate to pick a fight with a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner like New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. On the critical issue of developing a national energy policy to lessen our consumption of imported oil, he's been early, smart, and right.
A happy, healthy birthday to Roger Ebert, America's movie critic
Journalists have a habit of making heroes of poor managers. But high quality journalism is too vital to be reduced to a charity case
While business schools are renowned as dynamic academic institutions where eager students are fed the very latest in strategy and research, underpinning it all is many decades of thinking about the most fundamental questions of how companies work, and how they can work better.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam, whose bestselling books -- including "The Best and the Brightest," "The Breaks of the Game," "The Reckoning" and "October 1964" -- chronicled politics, history and sports, was killed in a car accident Monday. He was 73.
Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi photographer who helped the Associated Press win a Pulitzer Prize last year, is now in his sixth month in a U.S. Army prison in Iraq. He doesn't understand why he's there, and neither do his AP colleagues.
Sudan will release Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek, who was held on spying charges after entering Sudan without a visa, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Friday.
GARY PRUITT isn't your typical newspaper company CEO. The 48-year-old boss of McClatchy Co. doesn't golf. He's a surfer with a passion for the Clash and Green Day. He's also unconventional in anoth...
When a business story breaks, you usually read all about it in the Wall Street Journal. But when the first major business story of the year broke on Jan. 3, the paper whiffed.
When a business story breaks, you usually read all about it in the Wall Street Journal. But when the first major business story of the year broke on Jan. 3, the paper whiffed. On that day its paren...
I've never seen the stage musical "Rent," but the movie had me at hello.
River metaphors run thickly and unsubtly through "Empire Falls," Richard Russo's adaptation of his own lovely novel of the same name.
Before anything else is said, let's give Philip Caputo a serious round of applause for "Acts of Faith."
Arthur Miller, the American playwright whose works "Death of a Salesman," "All My Sons" and "The Crucible" made him one of the leading lights of 20th-century theater, has died. He was 89.
This week, Tom Brokaw leaves NBC's anchor desk. In March, it'll be Dan Rather's turn to depart at CBS.
An exhibit titled "Campaigns, Conventions and Cartoons" at Boston's Suffolk University features original works by the nation's top political cartoonists.
Disney CEO Michael Eisner is finishing a new book about how he learned leadership and drive ... at summer camp. The book, aptly titled Camp, from Warner Books (which like FORTUNE is owned by Time W...
I've been getting letters from readers recently giving me the thumbs up on the magazine's fairly new look. Thanks a bunch, folks, but I'd like to take the time to give credit to the proper people: ...
You can hardly venture onto the campaign trail without stumbling over some candidate's education proposal. They're everywhere, like lice on a second-grader's head. But pick the nits of this issue, ...
There's a great scene in the HBO TV series The Sopranos where the son of the fictional Tony Soprano learns from the Internet that his father is not a waste-management executive, as he'd claimed, bu...
The image remodelers face a challenge. They're trying to make a curmudgeonly mayor seem cuddly and a stiff Vice President seem like a stitch. The personality makeover might be the hardest move in p...
All summer long Washington has burned over the issue of a tax cut: How big should it be? Who should get it? How will it affect the economy? The debate is certain to smolder into the fall. But in al...
For Bill Clinton, eager to have a decent legacy, and for Al Gore, eager to win his own term in the White House, this is the summer to save Medicare and to fight for a prescription-drug entitlement....
Could the national debt soon be an endangered species? Although $7.5 trillion in outstanding notes and bonds won't fade away quickly, the capital is agog with the notion that both the deficit and t...
This is the time of the political season when Republicans trim their views to the specifications of the Christian Coalition, when commentators talk of invisible armies of zealous campaigners, when ...
No patience. Not collegial. Uncomfortable in the background. Reluctant to compromise. No respect for institutional traditions. Proven inability to suffer fools. Incapable of small talk. By any meas...
Here's the political profile: A Westerner with an independent streak. A crusader against big money in politics. A brutal opponent of the tobacco industry. A loud critic of the GOP leadership for it...
The Republican Congress has rarely seen a war it didn't want to fight. Affirmative action? Straight to the front lines. Taxes? Full mobilization. The budget? Bombs away. Welfare? Ditto. But now, wi...
Steve Forbes dives into the Republican race not by flying to Des Moines or Manchester, N.H., but by announcing his candidacy on the Internet. Jesse Jackson gets out of the Democratic race not by ca...
Even as Belgrade burns, peace has broken out in the most unlikely place: Washington. For a generation, politicians have fought bitterly over defense spending. The debate was stark-- Republicans wan...
George W. Bush is the Republican Party's bright light, the governor of a big state, and the heir to a political tradition. He looks great on magazine covers, but the presidency isn't won on paper, ...
Listen up, Republicans. It's time to change the subject. Trying to drive Clinton from office ended up driving people away from the GOP. What you need now is less Cotton Mather and more Ronald Reaga...
The scourge of the presidential primaries--special interests that pour hundreds of volunteers into campaign headquarters, lawn-sign crews, and get-out-the-vote drives--are about to fade from the sc...
The voters didn't produce much of a House cleaning this fall, and the Senate won't look that much different in January, either. Even so, there will be a new set of leaders in the House, some new fa...
The old Congress is still haggling over impeachment and the new Congress hasn't even been sworn in, but the battle lines are already being drawn for one of the signature struggles of 1999: what to ...
The President's approval ratings are holding firm. Everybody's going to get reelected. (Well, maybe not everybody, but almost everybody.) The stock market is in trouble, but a lot of us are still l...
In his first term, Bill Clinton took risks. A crusade against the military for gay rights. A budget plan that raised taxes. A proposal to reshape the health-care system. An emotional White House me...
You probably thought the New Puritanism ended with the defeat of the tobacco bill. Think again. Unfazed by the failure of the campaign against Big Tobacco, reformers are bearing down on a new targe...
The spring primaries are over, and the survivors are staggering amid the rubble. Though bowed and bloodied, they have learned some lessons: Don't carp about an economy that's roaring. Don't critici...
As usual, Washington's political elite is noisily discussing, declaiming, declaring, deploring, dissing, denying--and dissembling. Except for the Republicans, who are neither seen nor heard. In the...
Don't even think about it. Don't even think about Monica Lewinsky or Kathleen Willey. There are schools to wire, the IRS to reform, the government to reorganize. And there's the earth to televise. ...
For some time now it's been apparent that the moral cloud hanging over Bill Clinton has a lining of silver--and gold. The President is in the biggest trouble of his life, yet the Democrats are rais...
Bill Clinton's problems come in bunches. There's sex, or at least the allegations that he had a sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky. There's the military, in particular the troops mobilized this win...
If nothing else, the White House sex scandal has revealed the essential Clinton problem--not his personal conduct, which is still as much a matter of conjecture as fact; not his trustworthiness, wh...
President Clinton plans to submit the first balanced budget since the Nixon years. Inflation is below 2%. Unemployment is at quarter-century lows. Now it looks as if interest rates will tumble too....
All the business barometers in Washington are seemingly healthy: On Capitol Hill there's a Republican majority newly emboldened by a string of successes in the November off-year elections. In the W...
The Christian right, one of the great forces of upheaval in American politics, is itself in upheaval. Ralph Reed is gone, the child tax credit firmly established, the easy battles over. Now the mov...
There they go again. Talking about new initiatives for health insurance. Making plans to spend billions on schools. Drafting proposals to replace municipal water systems and decrepit bridges. Float...
The summer's Moneygate hearings may be the best theater Washington has to offer this year. All the classic elements are there: Greed. Envy. Ambition. Pride. Lies. Cover-ups. Also cover-ups of cover...
Trent Lott is organized and logical. He's unfailingly polite. He is the picture of calm. So why is everyone angry at him? Only a year ago the Senate Majority Leader was the symbol of a fresh Republ...
The far left and the far right are screaming at China. The liberal Ted Kennedy and the conservative Orrin Hatch are conspiring to win health care benefits for children. The Democratic President and...
Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry of the Miami Herald, whose weekly column is syndicated in more than 400 newspapers, has faced the corporate beast without flinching: For seven years he ta...
In public the talk is of reform--how the campaign-finance system must be overhauled, how the influence of the special pleaders and the special interests has to be purged. But in private the talk is...
Now that the Clinton Administration's phony budget numbers are in, and the Republicans' phony budget numbers are being prepared, the verdict is also in. Both parties are reaching the same phony con...
Does this sound like an American political party you know?
Bob Dole wants to overhaul welfare. So does Bill Clinton. Clinton wants a Constitutional amendment enshrining victims' rights. So does Dole. Dole wants to cut capital gains taxes. So does Clinton. ...
Want to read all about the political conventions? This isn't the place. Sure, we'll tell you what to watch for (see O Democracy!), but those infomercials come through just as clear on your cable sy...
For sheer naked greed, endemic corruption, and over-the-top hedonism, you can't beat David McClintick's story "The Predator" (see Swindles). Even in the long history of Hollywood money scandals, th...
So I've pulled off one of the toughest tricks in American political history: I've become a late bloomer at age 72. That was no picnic. But it's nothing compared with what I have ahead of me. I'm go...
For years we've been governed by generals and lawyers. We've also sent a postmaster, a cowboy adventurer, an engineer, a haberdasher, a peanut farmer, and an actor to the White House. The nation's ...
The analysts, commentators, political scientists, and historians will examine the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary in February for hints of what is happening to American politics. They m...
Bring on the presidential campaign. However serious, or silly, it may get, Fortune enters the fray particularly well armed this time, because of the brace of opinion columnists we've added to the f...
Not long ago we had a visit in our Rockefeller Center offices from Alex Mandl, recently named to become president of AT&T in 1997 and the man who oversaw its acquisition of McCaw Cellular last year...
We're all familiar with what's been happening to college prices. My four years at Princeton (class of 1964) cost less than $12,000, while my daughter's four years at Oberlin ('94) topped $90,000. A...
Donald Barlett and James Steele want you to believe that Congress and Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton have conspired with ''the monied interests'' agains...
There's an old saying: ''Never get in a fight with a pig. You'll both get muddy, and the pig will just enjoy it.'' Nevertheless, I leap into the wallow to defend the Wall Street Journal -- in much ...
The figgy pudding is steaming on the boiler, or whatever figgy pudding is supposed to do. The goose, poor thing, has gone to that great migration in the sky, its mortal remains soon to lie burbling...
MUSIC KIOSK If your local music store doesn't carry ''Rhapsody in Blue'' in the key of B, you'll be looking forward to NoteStation. This computer kiosk by MusicWriter of Los Gatos, California, can ...
Poet, critic, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, James Agee wrote for FORTUNE from 1932 to 1939. This marriage of poetry and journalism is from a September 1934 story on the burgeoning roadside b...
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