I'm feeling so good these days about my government. Look at the first five headlines on Reuters as I write this: N.Y. Police May Issue Landmarks Alert-Official Rumsfeld: Extremists to Get Weapo...

Ok, we just found out that the world is a dangerous place, but America is making it more dangerous, in fact as well as in its imagination. We are like a nation that has had a psychological break ...

I also took the Political Compass test, and I found I'm even more lefty and more libertarian than Mr. B: Economic Left/Right: -6.38 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -9.51 About the same as Ghandi if he...

Castro is apparently no longer a threat to the Western Hemisphere, but only a weight on the shoulders of his own people. Bushie says we must continue the embargo designed by our Cold War, but now ...

So, this supposedly democratic nation with its famed Bill of Rights cannot keep us safe without disregarding its own principles and standards. And, since we have been told that the "war on teroris...

Are we really sacrificing our liberties, and those of much of the rest of the world, and ignoring almost all domestic problems, to virtually no effect in the "war on terrorism?" Say it ain't so! ...

Stuart Hawkins has a magnificent show mounted in Priska C. Juschka's new space in Williamsburg. We had seen different work of hers, no less extraordinary, at the Scope show in the Gershwin Hotel e...

How did we get here? How many times have we heard that so many people voted for Bushie because he was the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with (whether or not he would want to on his part). ...

Sent down from Smith because her educated father thought too much education would make her unmarriageable, over sixty years later she returned to the school she had loved so much, completing her de...

Apparently we don't always know what we look like to others, even if we try to live two lives. Warren Allen Smith, 80, sat at the corner table looking clean and gray, dressed in dark corduroys, a...