What a country! Can we still say stuff like this? Yes, but it doesn't matter, since we're still not able to influence what passes for our own government, even if we talk nice. Mark Morford's "SF...

These are the words of a madman, and not merely the ravings of an idiot, ignorant of fact, of the world and of history. Actually they are certainly both. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Vice Presid...

A Kuwaiti political science professor who had come to the U.S. in 1971 for undergraduate and graduate studies, and who was working in Washington last September, is saddened, like many of us, at the...

--is not limited to the subject of health coverage. But let's start dismantling it right there. Free-Market Myth of Health Coverage To the Editor: Re "Unproductive Medicare Bashing" (editori...

[The U.S. won't remonstrate against the Saudi government.] Are we "Drowning Freedom In Oil"? The Muslim world does not hate the West. They quite reasonably hate what the West is doing to their w...

[Donald just sent this message describing Steve's report of his experiences yesterday and today in Palestine.] I am writing this around 10:30 AM on Sunday, August 25, New York Time This report c...

It's a chink in my atheistic armor, but I'll admit I have a soft spot for both the people and the institutions of the world's most human and progressive religious communities. The folks connected ...

The only actual rationale for an Iraqi war was recently provided by Richard Perle, a leader of the AdministrationÂ’s neoconservative hawks. "The failure to take on Saddam after what the president s...

Maybe something's finally clicking out there in the head- and heartlands. Today even the NYTimes has to admit it's worth a few lines, but without a doubt this story has real legs--and great pictur...