How did we end up supporting a man and a government whose interests and policies are so patently offensive and contrary to the welfare of at least ninety-five percent of the nation? One statement ...

--before he was canonized by September 11. Some of us will not forget the man who essentially presided over a regime of terrorism against the poor and the weak, and who encouraged its most visible...

Reuters headline today: "Democrats Pledge Cooperation After Defeat"

--and no one anywhere is doing much to change that, since the people involved are not men. In Amsterdam, with a huge significant immigrant population dominated by those who share her religious her...

Jane Smiley, not without a certain perverse delight, says, in a letter to the NYTimes editor, that she's now rather pleased with the election outcome. To the Editor: Re "Into the Wilderness," by...

Quote of the day, found in the last sentence of the following excerpt from Frank Rich's column: As the reigning cliché had it, 2002 was the "Seinfeld" election — an election about nothing. But h...

In one of the best pieces to appear since November 5, Thomas Scott Tucker talks, on his own site, about where the Democratic Party came from, where it went and where it now has to go, to survive. ...

The junta in Washington frightened, seduced or merely distracted, us with a war of its own invention. Is this nation cowardly, insane or just plain stupid? Never mind. The consequences will be th...

Another letter in the NYTimes today puts the lie to the boasts of Hummer owners and GM's marketing campaign. Note that the vehicle in question is the "small" Hummer To the Editor: I'm not surpri...

In the context of a letter to the editor responding to a really problematic NYTimes OP-Ed piece by Thomas L. Friedman, the writer includes a compelling european view of the U.S. today. The United...