The just-about-legendary, yet historical, New York socialist community, The Workman's Circle, or Der Arbeter Ring celebrates over one hundred years of caring. Now exhibiting the effects of its suc...

Jam Master Jay, the DJ of the rap group Run-DMC, was shot in the head and killed last night in a Queens recording studio. "He has a little soul, to rock n' roll Every record that he touches turn...

Michael Bronski has written a sharp essay on the real Harry Hay and his "uneasy relationship with the gay movement." Hay believed that "queer sexuality had an essential outsider quality that made ...

Richard Goldstein made it onto the NYTimes Op-Ed page again today, this time using Harry Hay's death to remind us all of the American blackout of queer history. Why are the gay movement's roots s...

Oh sure, they're gonna "open their files." Actually, it's simply a continuing coverup of Vatican complicity in the Holocaust, and a transparent propaganda move, to show historians "the great works...

Boondocks' Huey really says it best, and it makes a great sound bite, should any of us find ourselves under a microphone in the near future: Just a reminder that the economy is in the toilet, we'...

We sat in the first row for the Robert Wilson/Tom Waits "Woyzeck" last night. We're both getting impatient (at the least) with Wilson, but Waits' raw super-noir keeps him interesting. (This is th...

Oh what joy! To be able just once to say to the Bushies, "Take a Hike!" and know that they heard, and that so did everybody else. WASHINGTON - The sons of the late Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone ...

[Yesterday a Middle East intellectual] suggested that there was a double standard in the extraordinary reaction against Mr. Hussein today compared with the world's inaction when he turned chemical ...

Gore Vidal is not afraid to offend, bless him. America's most controversial writer Gore Vidal has launched the most scathing attack to date on George W Bush's Presidency, calling for an investiga...