Damien Cave

  • King baby

    Walter Yetnikoff talks about running CBS Records in the '70s, Michael Jackson's strange habits -- and Janet Jackson's breasts.
    By Damien Cave April 1, 2004

  • Norman Lear responds

    Yes, he's a progressive, says the famed TV producer -- but his campaign to turn out the youth vote is nonpartisan and open to conservatives and liberals alike.
    December 9, 2003

  • Wish upon a star

    Bush-bashers are hoping that entertainment celebrities will turn out crucial first-time voters. But the audiences aren't sold.
    By Damien Cave December 5, 2003

  • Cuba confidential

    Ann Louise Bardach talks about the fading of Fidel, the end of the embargo, and the drive for democracy -- and why exile leaders aren't happy about any of it.
    By Damien Cave January 28, 2003

  • Reel world domination

    If young film buffs choose Tarantino over Antonioni, are they culturally illiterate? Some of their elders, self-appointed guardians of the cinematic canon, think so.
    By Damien Cave October 31, 2002

  • Dying for God

    The author of "The Martyrs of Columbine" on the strange and sometimes violent collision of religion and politics.
    By Damien Cave October 23, 2002

  • MOSEX opens doors -- earth doesn't move

    Overserious, rushed and muddled, the Museum of Sex comes across like an awkward adolescent on a first date.
    By Damien Cave October 11, 2002

  • Wall Street's worst nightmare

    Does New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer really want to clean up the stock market, or just make himself look good?
    By Damien Cave October 10, 2002

  • Panic in the sheets

    Abstinence crusaders are exploiting fears of a mysterious virus to scare teens away from having sex.
    By Damien Cave October 8, 2002

  • "The Money Shot" by Laura Grindstaff

    The producers of daytime TV talk shows must woo wife beaters, drug addicts and other scum as guests. Their reward? Being treated like bottom-feeding slime by a public that laps it up.
    By Damien Cave September 25, 2002

  • Forbidden thoughts about 9/11: The readers respond

    From "It was only white people" to hoping to get a 212 cell phone number to "I hope my father died," readers share their secret reactions to Sept. 11.
    September 11, 2002

  • Forbidden thoughts about 9/11

    From gloating about getting off work to enjoying the "country road" ambience of lower Manhattan to hating on-the-make firemen: A spectrum of improper responses to the terror attacks.
    By Damien Cave September 7, 2002

  • Imaginary infants as beacons of hope

    Once again, Americans have conjured a baby boom out of a national tragedy. What better way to create a happy ending?
    By Damien Cave September 3, 2002

  • File sharing: Guilty as charged?

    New numbers on declining music sales could mean that MP3 trading really is hurting CD sales. But that still doesn't mean we should lock up the pirates.
    By Damien Cave August 23, 2002

  • The conspiracy theory that wouldn't die

    Did a shadowy group of American diplomats threaten the Taliban last year, provoking the 9/11 attack? Many on the left think so. Now the diplomats tell their side of the story.
    By Damien Cave August 15, 2002

  • "Barbed Wire: A Political History" by Olivier Razac

    Here's how a simple twist of spiked metal ravaged the American West, crucified a generation of young men and terrorized millions of Europeans.
    By Damien Cave August 6, 2002

  • Air Jordans

    What changed leisure footwear forever and created the wonderful, hideous behemoth of contemporary consumer culture? It's gotta be da shoes.
    By Damien Cave August 5, 2002

  • Grime pays

    Bush's cuts to the Superfund reward corporate polluters for stonewalling and leave neighbors of toxic sites frustrated and desperate.
    By Damien Cave July 29, 2002

  • The new gilded age and its discontents

    Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about the corporate looting spree and Bush's woeful mismanagement of the economy.
    By Damien Cave July 3, 2002

  • Interview with Joseph Stiglitz

    The winner of the 2001 Nobel prize in economics talks with Damien Cave about his book "Globalization and Its Discontents," the WorldCom scandal, the mistakes of the IMF and more.
    July 3, 2002

  • It's time for ICANN to go

    John Gilmore, original "cypherpunk" and all-around Internet supergeek, explains why the organization that runs the Internet is broken.
    By Damien Cave July 2, 2002

  • A long, slow revolution

    Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on school vouchers, one expert says dramatic change could be decades away.
    By Damien Cave June 29, 2002

  • Foxes guarding the chicken coop

    President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place.
    By Damien Cave June 26, 2002

  • File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty

    An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't -- and he doesn't know why.
    By Damien Cave June 13, 2002

  • The Netflix way

    Will the success of the pioneering DVD-rental company convince a reluctant music industry to embrace its own subscription strategy?
    By Damien Cave June 6, 2002
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