Our good friend Bill Dobbs writes us that there may be something in the old slogan, "Gay is Good," coined by Dr. Frank Kameny in the summer of 1968. A 20-year-old marine corps reservist in Califor...

Michelangelo Signorile reports that, in the midst of the real business of the military, its peak period, actual war, once again the Pentagon has decided that gays are too useful to be thrown out. ...

It's official. It's impossible for Americans to get real news. Our "news" sources have actually become, almost sui generis, government propaganda. The Peter Arnett story is the latest, and perha...

It was assembled in love and anger thirty years ago in a world most of us could hardly have imagined, safe in our enlightened beds, until now. In 1973, at the height of the Apartheid regime, the p...

Iraqis have just arrested Saddam Hussein, formed a secular democratic government of unity and demanded the U.S. and Britain leave the country immediately and pay reparations for 12 years of damages...

Jimmy Breslin continues to cover the war from the subways of New York. This subway is my base for this war, the subways of the city, a battlefield that could be the most important action in the w...

Molly Ivins reminds us in The Progressive this month that, in spite of his other failings, Hermann Goering was no fool. While under arrest in Nuremburg in 1946 the Nazi leader told an interviewer,...

And that's fine with me. Sam, of Pedantry [via Alas, a Blog], has a great take on Barry Goldwater's most famous epigram, "Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit ...

The household has been delightfully distracted for five days while the perfect mother-out-of-law visited us this past week. It was also a healthy diversion from a virtually full-time obsession wit...

Could any report on this, the sixth day of the slaughter in this unjust war, be more revealing of the failure of American journalism, even of America? This is the actual NYTimes headline, spread i...