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Stephen Silver

Stephen Silver is a journalist and editor who specializes in the areas of politics, pop culture, film and sports. He works as an editor with the North American Publishing Co. and as a film critic with The Trend, a local newspaper in the Philadelphia area. His work has also appeared in Boston Magazine, New York Press, the Detroit News, the American Jewish World, and Hardball Times, as well as on his blog, SteveSilver.net, which he has operated for nearly five years. Stephen is a 2000 graduate of Brandeis University who lives in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Rebecca.

 

Stephen's Previous Columns

 

We Have to Kill Hitler - September 8, 2009
 

‘Exploiting’ Kennedy By Doing What He Wanted? Come Again? - September 1, 2009

 

Obama: Go It Alone on Health Care - August 25, 2009
 

Dogs, Birds and Michael Vick - August 18, 2009

 

Health Care and the Party of Death Panels - August 11, 2009
 

To the Right, the Only Racists are Reverse Racists - August 4, 2009
 

Birthers: You People Are Nuts - July 28, 2009

 

The Hurt Locker: The First Great Iraq War Movie - July 21, 2009
 

Michael, McNair, McNamara: Balancing Truth With Respect for the Dead - July 14, 2009

 

Sarah Palin: A Strange End to a Stranger Career - July 7, 2009
 

Michael Jackson: A One-Glove Salute - June 30, 2009
 

Iran: It's Their Revolution - June 23, 2009
 

Yes, There is Right-Wing Extremism - June 16, 2009
 

For Once, Defending Bill O’Reilly: Tiller’s Blood is Not on His Hands - June 9, 2009

 

The Bald Truth, From Michael Smerconish - June 2, 2009
 

It's Not About Nancy - May 26, 2009
 

Sure, Save Newspapers, But the Kindle ‘Reading Device’ Isn’t Going to Do It - May 12, 2009

 

Oh No: Stone, Douglas Back for Wall Street 2? - May 5, 2009

 

Time for a Truth Commission on Torture - April 28, 2009

 

Extreme, or Not Extreme, on the Right - April 21, 2009
 

Getting Used to Gay Marriage - April 14, 2009

 

The Journalist and the Cop: A Philly Story - April 7, 2009

The Right vs. the Straw Obama - March 31, 2009

Coming in 2011: The NFL Goes Boom - March 24, 2009

Remembering Ron: A Tale of Two Silvers - March 17, 2009

 

Who's the Leader of the Republicans? Who Cares? - March 10, 2009

There Is No Fairness Doctrine - March 3, 2009

On the Trail With 'Wronged' Republicans - February 24, 2009

A-Rod & Michael Phelps: The Sports Media Must Be on Drugs - February 17,  2009

 

Another Missed Opportunity for the Palestinians - February 10, 2009

In Bruce We Trust - February 3, 2009

 

Success Unlikely, But George Mitchell Gives Mideast Peace a Shot - January 27, 2009

Reflections on an Historic Day - January 21, 2009

Bush's Sorry Legacy - January 13, 2009

 

A Tale of Three Senate Seats - January 6, 2009

A Look Ahead: 15 Predictions for 2009 - December 30, 2008

Rick Warren and Obama’s Continued Pastor Problems - December 23, 2008

 

The GOP’s Phony ‘Questions’ About Obama and Blagojevich - December 16, 2008

 

Senator Matthews? - December 9, 2008

 

Milk: All Just a Little Bit of History Repeating - December 2, 2008

 

Obama’s Team: How Clintonian is Too Clintonian? - November 24, 2008

 

In Praise of Newsweek's Election-End Opus - November 17, 2008

 

The Vindication of Howard Dean - November 13, 2008

 

Surprise! Jews Back Obama - November 10, 2008

 

Yes, He Did - November 5, 2008

 

Expect an Obama Victory - November 3, 2008

 

No More ‘Real Americans’ - October 27, 2008

 

Some Questions (and Answers) About the Election and Race - October 20, 2008

 

The Politics of Fear Comes Back to Bite McCain - October 13, 2008

 

Sal Paolantonio’s Book on Football as America - October 7, 2008

 

Post-Debate Palin: The Same Disaster She Was Before - October 6, 2008

 

The First Debate, Blow-by-Blow - September 29, 2008

 

An American Honor for Gorby - September 22, 2008

 

‘Lipstick on a Pig’: Down With Fake Outrage - September 15, 2008

 

Final Notes on the Sarah Palin Convention - September 8, 2008

 

Despite the Cheers, McCain Will Regret the Palin Pick - September 5, 2008

Obama Delivers a Different Big Speech - September 1, 2008

 

Joe Biden: Obama Makes the Right Choice - August 25, 2008

 

The Conventions: Nothing Will Happen, and I Won’t Miss a Moment - August 18, 2008

 

The End of John Edwards - August 11, 2008

 

Shock Jocks: A Liberal Look at Talk Radio - August 5, 2008

 

McCain’s Bad Ad Problem - August 4, 2008

 

Blogs and the Power of Commenters - July 28, 2008

 

Silly Rankings Tab Obama ‘Most Liberal’ Senator - July 25, 2008

 

Welcome to Silly Season - July 21, 2008

Can Generation Kill Succeed Where the Iraq War Movies Failed? - July 14, 2008

McCain’s Veepstakes: The Top 15 Contenders - July 7, 2008

 

A View Toward Synthetic Fuels, And the End of Dependence on Foreign Oil - June 30, 2008

 

We Hate Pedophiles! (Unless They’re Famous, Or They Abuse Girls) - June 23, 2008

 

Remembering Tim Russert - June 16, 2008

 

Both Sides Need Hillary’s Voters, and Both are Wrong About Them - June 12, 2008

 

How Obama Did It - June 9, 2008

 

Is Late Night Political Comedy a Joke? - June 2, 2008

 

Obama's Veepstakes: The Top 15 Contenders - May 26, 2008

 

Republican Smears that Obama is Anti-Israel: It’s Not ‘Spin,’ It’s a Lie - May 19, 2008

 

The Shooting, the Beating, the Outcry: Another Week in Killadelphia - May 16, 2008

 

It’s (Almost) Over, and It’s Easy to See Why Hillary Lost - May 12, 2008

 

Buzz Bissinger vs. the Bloggers - May 5, 2008

 

Two Requests, Democrats: Pick a Nominee, and No More John Mellencamp Music! - April 28, 2008

 

Stop the Shady Move of the SuperSonics from Seattle - April 21, 2008

 

Obama vs. Hillary in Philly: The Big Loser is ABC - April 17, 2008

 

From Amman to Philadelphia: Around the World With Morgan Spurlock - April 14, 2008

 

The James Carville/Bill Richardson Judas Kerfuffle - April 7, 2008

 

Baseball Rises Above Steroids, Etc., Because the Game Is Still the Game - March 31, 2008

 

Barack Obama in the Land of Donovan McNabb - March 25, 2008

 

Will Jeremiah Wright Allow the Right to Start Loathing Obama? - March 24, 2008

 

Eliot Spitzer’s Sudden Fall - March 17, 2008

 

Bush-McCain ‘08 - March 10, 2008

 

Nonsense Aside, Barack Obama Strongly Supports Israel - March 3, 2008

 

Hillary Clinton's Desperation - February 25, 2008

 

Matt Santos of ‘The West Wing’: Barack Obama's Fictional Forerunner - February 18, 2008

 

Don’t Like Your Candidate, Republicans? Democrats Understand, and Laugh - February 11, 2008

 

Can John McCain Pass the GOP’s Reagan Purity Test? (Can Anyone?) - February 1, 2008

 

Calling Out Tiger Woods - January 28, 2008

 

Condemning Louis Farrakhan, Smearing Barack Obama - January 21, 2008

 

Eight Questions (and Answers) About Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee - January 14, 2008

 

It Was Fun to Think Obama Had Won, But Hillary’s Not Dead Yet - January 10, 2008

 

Baltimore’s Decline and the Triumph of HBO’s ‘The Wire’ - January 7, 2008

 

Twenty Predictions For 2008 - December 31, 2007

 

‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ Finally Gets It Right - December 24, 2007

 

Down the Stretch We Go: Can Any of These People Be President? - December 17, 2007

Nuclear Iran? Not So Much - December 10, 2007

 

The Media and the Death of Sean Taylor - December 3, 2007

 

Do the Drunken Misogynists of Giants Stadium Now Rule Sports? - November 26, 2007

 

The End of Barry Bonds - November 19, 2007

Think Hillary Clinton’s a Socialist? Ask Some Real Ones - November 12, 2007

‘Lions for Lambs’: Super-Pretentious, Implausible and Really Bad - November 5, 2007

 

Five Years Later, Minnesota and America Still Miss Paul Wellstone - October 29, 2007

 

In SCHIP Debate, Conservatives Attack 12-Year-Old Graeme Frost as ‘Fair Game’ - October 22, 2007

 

No White House Run: Al Gore Has All the Prizes He Needs - October 15, 2007

 

Giuliani’s Lack of Viability Belies Dobson’s Bluff - October 8, 2007

 

Liberal Messages and the Fall of Fall Movies - October 1, 2007

 

Race, Football and Donovan McNabb - September 24, 2007

 

In ‘The Big Con,’ Jonathan Chait Exposes the Lie of Supply-Side Economics - September 17, 2007

 

Vanquishing Al Qaeda Doesn’t Mean We Win in Iraq - September 10, 2007

 

Down the Toilet: The End of Larry Craig - September 3, 2007

Anti-Defamation League Recognizes Armenian Genocide, But It’s Not Enough - August 27, 2007

 

Political Aftereffects of the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse - August 20, 2007

 

An Iraq Documentary Based on Facts, Not Michael Moore-Style Cheekiness - August 13, 2007

 

A Thought-Provoking Stretch: Barry Bonds, Michael Vick Victims of Racism? - August 6, 2007

 

Presidential Debates, Wrestlemania Style - July 30, 2007

 

Methinks Bill O'Reilly Doth Protest Too Much - July 23, 2007

 

The McCain Meltdown - July 16, 2007

 

Rumble in Minnesota: Al Franken vs. Norm Coleman for U.S. Senate - July 9, 2007

 
Will Chris Benoit's Death Lead to Wrestling Changes? Don't Bet on It - July 2,2007
 
America Isn't New York: Can Michael Bloomberg Become President? - June 25, 2007
 
Did 'Knocked Up' Screw Up in Its Treatment of Abortion? - June 18, 2007
 
The Sopranos: Made for the Last Time - June 11, 2007
 
Gaining Some Perspective in Normandy - June 4, 2007
 
Jerry Falwell: When Bad Men Pass On - May 21, 2007
 
In the Philadelphia Mayoral Race, Will It Be Nutter to the Rescue? - May 14, 2007
 
The GOP Debate, Minute by Minute - May 7, 2007
 
Judge Global Warming on Merits, Not Sheryl Crow - April 30, 2007
 
Virginia Tech Massacre Brings Out the Axe-Grinders - April 23, 2007
 
Ten Questions (and Answers) about Don Imus - April 16, 2007
 
America Has Bigger Problems than Rosie O'Donnell - April 9, 2007
 
No Bitterness from Buck O'Neil - April 2, 2007
 
Israel, the Special Relationship, and 2008 (Part II) - March 26, 2007
 
Israel, the Special Relationship, and 2008 (Part I) - March 19, 2007
 
Can Rudy Win? Should He? - March 12, 2007
 
If at First You Can't Smear... - March 5, 2007
 
A Tale of Two Trials - February 26, 2007
 
Gay in the NBA - February 19, 2007
 
The Edwards Blog and the Right's Fake Outrage - February 12, 2007
 
Americans Wise Up About Iraq, No Thanks to Antiwar Movement - February 5, 2007
 
Jimmy Carter and Reality-Starved Campus Politics - January 29, 2007
 
Don't Blame the Media for Reporting Truth - January 22, 2007
 
You've Got Democracy? Here Come the Consultants - January 15, 2007
 
When Reporting Was King - January 8, 2007
 
Twenty Predictions for 2007 - January 1, 2007
 
Who's Afraid of Keith Ellison? - December 25, 2006
 
Pinochet's Apologists: 'He Was Better than Castro'! - December 18, 2006
 
The Right's Meltdown Over Mary's Baby - December 13, 2006
 
Free Philadelphia From the Mumia Cause Celebre - December 6, 2006
 
Yes, We Have Failed in Iraq - November 29, 2006
 
The Right Comedy? - November 22, 2006
 
Outing... and Whitewashing - November 15, 2006
 
Big Tent, Smart Strategy Led Dems to Victory - November 8, 2006
 
Pass the Popcorn: Political Ads are Great Entertainment - November 1, 2006
 
Will the Democrats Take Back the Statehouse As Well? - October 25, 2006
 
Borat: Equal Opportunity Skewering - October 18, 2006
 
The End of Rick Santorum? - October 11, 2006
 
Have You No Sense of Decency? - October 4, 2006
 
The Gay American Tells All - September 27, 2006
 
A Liberal Assault on Anti-Americanism - September 20, 2006
 
Let's Not Forget the Real Villains of 9/11 - September 13, 2006
 
A Big Fight in Minnesota's Fifth - September 6, 2006
 
Skewed Perspectives of the We Hate Mainstream Media Club - August 30, 2006
 
All JonBenet, All the Time - August 23, 2006
 
Our Crazies Aren't As Crazy As Your Crazies - August 16, 2006
 
What's A Liberal Jew to Do? - August 9, 2006
 
Mel's Moment of Clarity - August 2, 2006
 
They Don't Always Love Me, But I'm A Democrat - July 26, 2006
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