I'm no economist, although I did manage to make it through two semesters in the midst of an otherwise now-extinct liberal arts curriculum. I leave the serious dismal stuff to Barry, but Paul Krugm...

No, Iraq did not throw UN weapons inspectors out of the country in 1998, and, yes, UN weapons inspectors did exceed their mandate sufficiently to collect eavesdropping intelligence used in American...

David Budbill navigates a few of the world's religions to see how we got to where we are today and where we might go from here, in his latest notes, "Christians and the War on Terror." When I was...

I just can't resist adding one final, possibly very perverse, thought to the item posted just below. With apologies to the millions whose lives were destroyed by its most horrible works, perhaps i...

The deadly-menace nutcases in Washington now say "we" (using whatever ordinary or special units we want to invent and use) have the right to go anywhere at any time to murder anyone for any reason,...

Travel adventures within the West Bank: [The general secretary of the Tulkarm Blood Bank Society, Azzam Al-Araj, writes,] There is a curfew in effect in my town in Palestine. When I take the risk...

Not really a news development, as the peace activists who have been regular targets of Israeli attacks know well, but it would actually be real news over here, except that it's not in the news. Th...

[Oh the times. Oh the manners!--Cicero] Yes, it's come to this, but not a moment too soon. The NYTimes Business Section today includes a lengthy piece on how corporate executives can survive in ...

Besides biting the hand that feeds you, it's just plain wrong! Madison Square Garden and the New York W.N.B.A. team, Liberty, continues to ignore, if not just plain snub, lesbian fans of women's b...

Reportage specific to the experience of the arabs around Har Homa (the project discussed below) concludes the article: A small group of Israeli Arab and Palestinian workers is also living in Har...