Bethlehem will go without Christmas this year. BETHLEHEM - There'll be no Christmas tree in Manger Square. No festive lights. And no singing. Palestinian Christians decided yesterday to strip th...

Yuck. So the Catholic Church was "fiercely lobbying" up to the last minute to defeat the modest, and decades-overdue, extension of the New York State Nondiscrimination Act (to include homosexuals ...

I had the privilege of watching New York City Councilmember Christine Quinn in action this afternoon. Well, actually I admit she was only idling, compared to what she can do when warmed up and rea...

I'd rather see it fought on grounds even more essentially moral, but this one will definitely do. As the Bush administration draws up plans to simplify the tax system, it is also refining argumen...

So reads the excellent headline on Stanley Crouch's excellent column in today's Daily News. My favorite sentences, here pulled out separately from the whole: What stands before the Republican Pa...

The Daily News this morning printed my letter responding to a piece by their own editor, Jonathan Capehart, published last week. Capehart had suggested that Tom Duane was destroying the chances fo...

this spunky little site makes a fine statement. Maybe it looks a little chauvinistic, but if it helps to direct a boastful nation to its ideals, I can take the bunting and the suggestion of former...

Following the unsuccesful American-backed military coup in Venezuela last April, when asked whether the Bush administration now recognizes Mr. Chávez as the nation's legitimate president, one White...

Those who know me have seen the blue button I have been wearing for the past two months, and some already know what it means. If you are still curious, or if anyone else reading this might be curi...

The Guardian's series on AIDS has produced an excellent report on a great man. The man is dying of AIDS, but he refuses to take the drugs that would keep him alive, until South Africa's government...