Great theater, meaning brilliant writing, extraordinary and sexy cast, wonderful direction, humanist message for our own time, and for the ages, and a wonderful performance space*, but it's going t...

Along with all of the other problems it presents, this is probably the biggest patronage scheme of all time! WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 — The Bush administration said today that it would place as many ...

Like, we can afford to throw away linguists, arabic or otherwise, at a time like this, or any time! Nine Army linguists, including six trained in Arabic, have been dismissed from the military bec...

As if we didn't already have plenty to worry about when flying! Three men [sailors returning to their homes in the central Pacific nation of Kiribati] carrying strange-looking documents who took ...

Scott Ritter, the ex-Marine and former U.N. arms inspector, hasn't yet been silenced in his own campaign against the mendacity of this particular Oval Office. His stature and his sincerity does ge...

Bush Lies, Media Swallows So reads the headline of a Nation column this week, in which Eric Alterman suggests the following question: Would you rather the press tell us the President is lying abo...

Bob Holman thinks so, and it seems like his Bowery Poetry Club may have a good chance to do just that. It looks and sounds wonderful, but the genie himself may be what makes the difference. This...

The "homeland security" bill accepted by Republican-Democrats yesterday does not include a provision for the creation of an independent commission to investigate the circumstances leading up to Sep...

Yesterday the Republican-Democratic Party won again! Democrats who had held up the [bill creating a monstrous Homeland Security Department] before Republicans regained control of Congress in the ...

Oh but that Bin Laden is so 2001. Sadam Hussein is this year's color.