In a column whose overall message is the continued decline in Dubya's popularity figures. Maureen Dowd hits a few bullseyes, but none better than her take on what passes for foreign policy in Washi...

In a great essay in this week's Village Voice, "Persecuting Pee-wee A Child-Porn Case That Threatens Us All," Richard Goldstein manages to sort out a lot of scary stuff, and he warns us that Paul R...

Not all of us are blind. DEFINITIONS OF WAR To the Editor: Re "Detention Upheld in Combatant Case" (front page, Jan. 9): If the definition of "wartime president" has changed from being preside...

Almost a century after she helped create the conscience of a once lively American Left, Emma Goldman's words have been proscribed by a great American University. The University of California at Be...

Zachie Achmat still won't take his pills, even though Nelson Mandela has asked him to. It's part of a very big plan, and it seems to be working, since, as he says, "The country is realizing that p...

While some may say the gesture trivializes and distracts from the gravity of the anti-war message, Unreasonable Women organizer Donna Sheehan said desperate times . . . "It got your attention, did...

--maybe too stupid to deserve democracy. I've always thought that the reason most Americans do not vote their interests, but instead support those of the super-wealthy, is that they actually expec...

We have to be reminded, and remind others, that the streets are for people first, and that everything else is there only with the sufferance of the people. The NYTimes decided to print two letters...

Calvin Trillin in the January 27 edition of The Nation: THE QUESTION OF NORTH KOREA Korea has the bomb, but not to worry. It's not a crisis. No, we needn't hurry To get inspections back. Why t...

Noah Taylor, the actor who portrays Adolf Hitler in "Max" explains his approach to an intimidating assignment in a tiny item of the NYTimes today, "Seeking the Dictator Within." Speaking of obsta...