Climate changes, Bushes don't. The Bushies admitted last week, in a quiet report intended not to make the headlines, that we are indeed destroying our climate and our environment with the producti...

Sometimes a cellphone is just not a cellphone, as we learn from a NYTimes reader. As an avid Central Park birder, I'm always on the lookout for the unusual. Recently, after two hours of early-mor...

How can we live with this fool? Bushie delivered a major address to the Japanese Diet on February 21. A few seconds into the speech* he said: My trip to Asia begins here in Japan for an importa...

Iceland is on the way to full energy independence, and it does not involve fossil fuels. If we could only widely duplicate some of that country's natural advantages and ecological enthusiasms, we ...

This one was for Rex! Before he [under huge protest] succumbed to H.I.V. disease a few years ago, Rex Wasserman was a wonderful friend, a fanatical New Yorker, a fierce activist, and a City landsc...

America's agenda, while it clearly does not include any real consideration for the welfare of the world outside, excludes most Americans as well, with the notable exception of only the very very ri...

Mildred Wirt Benson died tuesday at the age of 96. The author of the very first book and 22 others in the earliest series of Nancy Drew novels confided to a NYTimes reporter in 1993 that her esote...

Back to the sixties---or worse! It's not the good parts this administration wants revived, but the infiltration and monitoring of political, religious and activist groups suspected of being critic...

The Green Party nominees for New York state offices carry background credentials a progressive voter normally only dreams of. Compare them to the candidates of the two "major" parties for office ...

Things are looking up a bit for the gay or lesbian partners of those lost in New York and Washington September 11, but not everyone is here to see it. The emergency funds made available after Sep...