Is this part of the many blessings being promised to New York if certain interests succeed in bringing the Olympics to the City in 2012? Government troops massacred student protesters in Tlatelol...

City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. wants the City of New York to leave the State of New York. "We send Albany $3.5 billion more than we receive back," Vallone said. "The state has treated us like ...

There is a very moving paid announcement on the top right corner of page A8 of today's NYTimes. It consists of the text of a resolution passed by the government of the City of Geneva for submissio...

The complete quote, Albert Einstein's words, goes, "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Well ...

The members of the administration in Washington are either reading their history these days, or they're definitely not. Poland was partitioned and occupied by three autocracies beginning in the ei...

Adlai Stevenson's son puts the White House's "good cop" in his place in an OP-ED column today. The administration and the media would like to sell Powell's appearance before the Security Council t...

"The community of free nations can show that it is strong and confident and determined to keep the peace." This is Bush speaking in Washington thursday, just after Colin Powell returned from New Y...

Thanks to Thomas Scott Tucker for introducing me to A.J. Muste. "There is no way to peace—peace is the way" and, in an ominous warning, "The problem with war is the winner."

He never stops making us smile, and laugh. The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, are being played on a German church organ on Wedn...

I have as much of an imagination and as much hope for the possibilities of our species as the next person, and I believe in a space program. I just cannot understand how we can think that incurrin...