As the evidence of global warming becomes inescapable, I fear Americans will switch instead to a fatalistic pessimism. Maybe it’s real and…
“We fought the good fight,”Ā Jeff Skilling said, standing strong after he and “Kenny Boy” Lay were convicted of defrauding Enron stockholders.…
People marched in Seattle for immigrant rights, like the two million people elsewhere, because families and futures were at stake. We didn’t…
In the wake of the Alito hearings, mainline pundits are calling his nomination a done deal. Alito didn’t spew obscenities or green…
Since Bill Moyers retired, I watch PBS pretty rarely. I remembered why when I saw the NOVA special on New Orleans, ‘The…
We learn much from how we present our heroes. A few years ago, on Martin Luther King. Day, I was interviewed on…
From the moment the John Roberts nomination was announced, the media called it a done deal. NPR and the New York Times…
As right-wing religious leaders attack Alberto Gonzales for being insufficiently doctrinaire, it’s tempting to accept him as the best we can get…
“They died for their country,” read the white granite memorial in the Concord, Massachusetts town square, honoring local men who died in…
It’s bad enough that the Bush administration had so little international support for the Iraqi war that their “coalition of the willing”…
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