Steve Kettmann

  • The new new world

    Charles C. Mann's monumental retelling of pre-Columbian American history, "1491," illuminates the existence of civilizations as populous and sophisticated as those of the European latecomers.
    By Steve Kettmann September 29, 2005

  • It's curtains for Okrent

    New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent reflects on the paper's "very bad journalism" on WMD, its liberal slant, and William Safire's wisecracks about readers.
    By Steve Kettmann May 12, 2005

  • Shocked, shocked!

    The hand-wringing over Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds is stupid and hypocritical. Everyone knows the score.
    By Steve Kettmann December 3, 2004

  • The last great American rivalry

    The Red Sox may finally be on the verge of ending The Curse and beating the Yankees. But even if they don't, their fans have been blessed with that rarest of gifts -- passion. An exclusive excerpt from Steve Kettmann's "One Day at Fenway."
    By Steve Kettmann September 24, 2004

  • Europe's impotent outrage

    Officials across the Atlantic are steaming about President Bush's "axis of evil" rhetoric, but there's not much they can do about it.
    By Steve Kettmann February 14, 2002

  • What real hockey looks like

    The Olympic hockey tournament is a golden opportunity for the NHL to make some long-overdue changes.
    By Steve Kettmann February 9, 2002

  • Art Howe

    The laid-back manager of the hard-charging Oakland A's does it his way, laconically and happily. And that drives his critics crazy.
    By Steve Kettmann October 16, 2001

  • Creating "many, many Osamas"

    Novelist William Vollmann says if the U.S. convinces Afghans of bin Laden's guilt, they'll support the move against him. If not, only "genocide" will defeat them.
    By Steve Kettmann September 27, 2001

  • The Central Asian chess game

    If the United States goes to war in Afghanistan, it will need the cooperation of former Soviet republics.
    By Steve Kettmann September 25, 2001

  • Solidarity forever?

    At an emergency meeting, European leaders back a "targeted" campaign against terrorism and applaud Bush's new internationalism.
    By Steve Kettmann September 22, 2001

  • No more Lone Ranger

    European leaders like the internationalist Bush who has emerged from last week's terror attacks.
    By Steve Kettmann September 18, 2001

  • "We are all Americans"

    With the news that several hijackers studied in Hamburg, Germans throw their support behind Bush, and the tensions of his early months in office melt away -- for now.
    By Daryl Lindsey and Steve Kettmann September 13, 2001

  • A Bonn surprise

    European leadership yields a new agreement on the Kyoto Protocol, isolating the U.S. as the only holdout on global warming.
    By Steve Kettmann July 23, 2001

  • Will Bush support the Kyoto Protocol?

    Pressure here and abroad may leave him no choice.
    By Steve Kettmann July 18, 2001

  • The European education of George W.

    They booed him, but the Europeans know they have to live with Bush. And though his speeches hint that travel might yet give him the vision thing, Russia is a different story.
    By Steve Kettmann June 16, 2001

  • Baseball boyfriend?

    When Out magazine's editor claimed his lover plays in the majors, he set off a media frenzy. But it's only a matter of time before gays get their Jackie Robinson.
    By Steve Kettmann May 26, 2001

  • Bush's Euro-skeptics

    In France they call him "an idiot." In Germany they call him a "big bully." Forget China -- Europe could turn out to be President Bush's biggest foreign policy problem yet.
    By Steve Kettmann April 6, 2001

  • In praise of a weak euro

    Why the nonstop decline in the value of its currency doesn't spell doom for the European Community.
    By Steve Kettmann October 5, 2000

  • Roger Angell

    Long before he started writing about baseball for the New Yorker he was a fan of the game, and he has never been afraid to show it.
    By Steve Kettmann August 29, 2000

  • Martina Navratilova

    The most daring player in the history of tennis, her attacking style and superb athleticism revolutionized the sport.
    By Steve Kettmann April 18, 2000

  • Bush's secret weapon

    Condoleezza Rice discusses her candidate's strong foreign policy convictions, but it's clear she's the brains of the operation.
    By Steve Kettmann March 20, 2000

  • Prague's native daughter

    Once her stint as secretary of state is up, will Madeleine Albright give up the perks of Washington life to give her native Czech Republic a boost?
    By Steve Kettmann March 8, 2000

  • Germany's mambo king

    Stuck between a rock and a hard place, flailing Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder takes lessons in political survival from President Clinton.
    By Steve Kettmann October 29, 1999

  • On the brink

    After a come-from-behind win in Game 3, there seems to be no stopping the New York Yankees.
    By Steve Kettmann October 27, 1999

  • Pete Rose steals the show

    As baseball honors the team of the century at the World Series, the all-time hits leader banned for gambling proves he can't be exiled forever.
    By Steve Kettmann October 25, 1999
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