Once again the gods of war have united our Congress like nothing else. Unable to agree on the minimal spending necessary to…

Robert Scheer
I love Thanksgiving for its illusion of abundance. It brings back early childhood memories of the one day each year during the…
I don’t know if Troy Davis was innocent, but I do know that the evidence for demanding a re-examination of his conviction,…
How I wish that Ben Bernanke would get caught emailing photos of his underwear-clad groin. Otherwise we don't stand a chance of…
(December 2, 2009) — It is already a 30-year war begun by one Democratic president, and thanks to the political opportunism of the…
What if eight years ago the World Trade Center had been leveled by a small nuclear bomb that took out most of…
California couldn’t get the White House to guarantee $5.5 billion in short-term notes to avert severe cuts in state and local payrolls,…
Not surprisingly, Lawrence Summers is convinced that he deserved every penny of the $8 million that Wall Street firms paid him last…
February 25, 2009 — We are lucky to have Barack Obama as president. I write that even though I believe the content…
So, Vladimir Putin was right: It was Georgia that started the war with Russia, and once again it was President Bush who…