Jim Newell

The terror at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, was palpable. It was a Wednesday night, and the then-governor of Alaska was on stage, addressing a horde of thousands who hooted their approval as the governor delivered the words: “commu-ni-ty ...

In a way, it’s a shame that U.S. intervention in Syria may be avoided just as the cast is filling out. Playing the administration that heralds the threat of foreign WMD attacks in some far-off Middle Eastern land, we have the Obama administration. As the cantankerous ...

The Internet got off to a great start this week! It killed a man. Saw, acknowledged, then scalped him. He is dead, for now. We can all rest. The era of Pax Dickinson being-employed-while-having-an-offensive-Twitter is over. Pax Dickinson, the erstwhile chief technology officer ...

This week, The Boston Phoenix published an edited version of Jim Newell’s essay from our current issue, “I Was a Teenage Gramlich.” You can read the story here.