Last Wednesday, Sept. 15th, a website called Kommons went live – and is sort of brilliant. It’s basically Formspring meets Twitter meets “Meet The Press,” or something: A community that seeks smart, conversation-furthering answers prompted by smart, probing questions — publicly. Here are a whole bunch, and they’re good — smart questions of smart people [...]

Why does everyone ignore Seymour Hersh? That’s what NYU Local editor Cody Brown wants to know, asking furiously on Twitter: “Why did the NYT omit mention of Seymour Hersh from the CIA story?” New Yorker editor David Remnick weighs in.