Across the U.S. and abroad yesterday, and in some areas continuing today, hundreds of thousands of people refused to be robots in Washington's plans for war. Bush spent the weekend at the preside...

Since the nineteenth century, the Mount Morris bathhouse has survived punctured realty bubbles, white flight, home plumbing, moral crusades, wars, racism, depression, fashion, homelessness and AIDS...

Interesting take on the HBO series, "Oz" from a letter in tomorrow's NYTimes "Arts & Leisure" section: [excerpt] I like "Oz" for many reasons, but I suspect that it touches something in me t...

They're finally speaking about the trauma of carpet-bombing, ruin and displacement after a silence of almost sixty years. As a historian manque, I've collected some book knowledge on the subject, ...

Citizen Works has a full-page ad in the NYTimes today describing the Bush administrationÂ’s assault on privacy and civil rights. Not news for most anyone who normally sees this weblog, but posssib...

The University of California has suddenly reversed its decision forbidding its own Emma Goldman Papers Project from printing quotations from Emma Goldman about war and the suppression of free speec...

I can't take it anymore! The American media has been misrepresenting events in Venezuela, slavishly adopting the account, one of pure invention, furnished by the Right in both Caracas and Washingt...

Not my quote, but that of that wacky agitator, John le Carré, printed as the headline of his piece in The Times of London. America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this i...

". . . I knew that I could never again raise my voice agains the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today...

Egads, he's so good he's scary! Mark Morford make's you glad you're not on his wrong side, especially when he writes as he does in his attack on the new Hummer, in fact on all SUVs, and the perver...