Here’s a phrase that’ll wow them come election time   in November 2008: "Specially Designated Global   Terrorist Entity." As in whenever…

  What percentage of American citizens — even among   the candidates for next year’s presidential elections,   for that matter — do…

  Whether you, I, our friends, neighbors, acquaintances,   or complete strangers are ever subjected to surveil-   ance — wiretapping of telephone lines…

  Yesterday, the Security Council adopted Res. 1769,   calling on "all the parties to the conflict in Darfur to   immediately cease…

   You know: At least the 2007 Tour de France had    the right sense of etiquette to all-but-collapse under    the weight of scandal and disillusionment…

By my count, the Commander-in-Chief used the phrase ‘al Qaida’ a total of 87 different times yesterday during his speech at the…

  Might you be determined to commit, or pose a significant risk   of committing, an act or acts of violence that…

Somebody kicked-over a rock at The Nation the other day.  An important but otherwise hidden issue lay beneath it.  A hearts-and-minds issue.  One of Alexander…

    Seeing that this Sunday’s New York Times advocated     at length for the immediate withdrawal of the occu-     pying military’s troops…

   A friend writes to remind me that today is the day    for the U.S. release of Michael Moore’s film, SiCKO.   …