ISTANBUL — There is an increasingly heated debate among the columnists of Taraf, a Turkish-language newspaper to which I contribute, about whether the Turkish government is past saving.
The columnists of the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper offered a conciliatory tone to the judge for having the courage to question his initial findings, while Ma'ariv writers were unforgiving.
My congratulations to Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica, who were awarded the Pulitzer for National Reporting; and to David Leonhardt, the economics columnist of the New York Times, who was honored for commentary.
That was clear in a recent Oval Office interview with the columnist Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post.
With tongue in cheek, the columnist Ally Fogg of The Guardian likened the archbishop's Wonga warning to the tough-guy talk of the television mobster Tony Soprano.
In e-mails several years ago to the chancellor at the time, Joel I. Klein, obtained by the columnist Juan Gonzalez of The Daily News, Ms. Moskowitz made clear her views.
Barbara Amiel, the columnist wife of Daily Telegraph proprietor Conrad Black, suggested that I find someone who was good with staff.
The game, he said, had been invented by Robert Courtine, who, under the name of La Reynière, was the gastronomic columnist of Le Monde for many years.
Mr. Hanks took an instant dislike to his character, Mike McAlary, the muckraking columnist of New York City tabloids in the 1980s and '90s.
Eric Alterman, the media columnist of The Nation, is a co-author of "The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism From Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama," from which this essay is adapted.
