[note: This post is not intended to suggest any obligation to contribute to or vote for Ralph Nader, the Green Party or any of the other alternatives to orthodoxy locked out of the commercial medi...

I lived in Providence, Rhode Island, for twenty years, most of that time very much in the midst of an extrordinary community of Cape Verdeans. Cape Verdeans? Most Americans have no reference what...

That is, move the location of square footage lost with the destruction of the World Trade Center. One important re-imagining of a solution has West Street buried entirely from below Chambers Stree...

Do we have something in mind that we want to keep hidden from the world? We'll almost certainly never know now. The United States lost a bid today to rewrite a United Nations plan intended to re...

"The male ego is not a hardy perennial; it's a very delicate flower." --David Rudgers, a 22-year veteran of the CIA, and author of Creating the Secret State, speaking about the U.S. military's pr...

Let's see what else can we do to destroy the country while no one is looking? The Cheney administration hasn't gotten anything right yet. It seems to be (fortunately) doing pretty well at messin...

With the elimination of the phrase, "under God," from the Pledge of Allegiance, and the brand recognition that went with it, does the country risk losing its marketing powers? The U.S. Justice De...

(at least for a few million years) Researchers have announced the discovery of an entirely new genus and species in the Ramble in Central Park. "We didn't know what was out there," Ms. Johnson s...

I for one don't think there is a chance, a chance that they will pick up the challenge, but here's the case outlined. The big, unacknowledged picture is this: The people in power represent an eco...

"Spiritual autobiography" is not my thing, but still, the mind reels, thinking about the other possibilities, after reading an author describe how he simply slips his own books onto store shelves, ...