Okrent examines how and why we came to outlaw alcohol in this country, what life under Prohibition was like, and how it changed the country forever. In Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition , he shows how diverse forces came together to bring...

Moreover, key members of the paper's staff - former executive editor Bill Keller, former public editor Daniel Okrent - have openly admitted as much. Naturally, The New York Times' orientation reflects, for the most part, the opinions and attitudes of...

(This advance is somewhat offset by the fact that Enrico also compiled a list of MLB's "best butts" by position. Mets catcher Todd Hundley gets a nod for her.) There's also an ad for a rotisserie baseball video starring many of the game's progenitors,...

Stop being partisan :) The New York Times is indeed a "lefty liberal paper", by US standards, but it also has an ignominious history of misrepresenting WMD "threats" in the Middle East. In 2004, after the Iraq war, the Times's public editor , Daniel...

But what’s a history major with loads of free time to do? Daniel Okrent’s book, is a comprehensive, well-written and witty account of the societal forces — from the efforts of the temperance and suffrage movements to the Ku Klux Klan — that combined to...

I’m embarrassed to have been taken in for so long. In discussing the origins of Kennedy’s gangster image, Okrent leaves out what seems to me the most salient fact: the desperate desire of the right wing to tarnish the image of JFK, which they properly...