What the heck is going on at The New Republic? Bet the Aspers want to know

Despite its venerable history as a voice of American liberalism, times have not been good recently for Canadian-owned The New Republic. The Asper family must be asking itself what kind of a gimcrack, out-of-control mess they bought.Not only is TNR famous for having harboured plagiarists and fabulists like Stephen Glass and Ruth Shallit in the past, now it is is coping with the fallout from its "