If rape is a weapon of the Congo's war, then treat it with the gravity afforded every other weapon. Until the sexual violence ends, the world has no right to speak of peace.
November isn't September, 2008 isn't 2001, Pakistan isn't Afghanistan, and India isn't America. So perhaps we should reclaim our tragedy and pick through the debris with our own brains and our own broken hearts so that we can arrive at our own conclusions.
Perhaps the shock to banking would be too great just now. I'm willing to be persuaded that intervention is necessary there. But the more I read about the auto industry, the less I am convinced.
Passage of the $15 billion dollar bailout package for Detroit auto makers is far from a done deal. But should it pass, know that it did so because Democrats yet again folded like cheap lawn chairs.
The Senate decided that it is more important to break a union, more important to throw middle class wage earners into the ranks of the working poor than to prevent the total collapse of industrial America.
Eat your heart out Brad! Angelina who? Here's why stripping in public let firm, cellulite-free Jen wash her ex right out of her hair and her life... at last!
Okay, I don't wanna say I told you so, but...
Let's have the government assume the cost of providing health care to auto workers, and have it take the lead in deciding how those health dollars are spent.
As Bettie's biographer, I can tell you that the underground bondage queen had the unlikely effect of thematically shaping a series of biographical and highly feminist novels about powerful women in history.
Does Blago -- and the rest of the white collar criminals of late -- know something we don't? It's as if the risk of getting caught was outweighed by their panic to get as much as they could before it's all gone.
There are defining moments in politics. By blocking the auto bailout, Republicans defined themselves. They are class warriors, willing to risk an economic calamity in order to break a union.
At a time when the US economy cannot withstand another shock the Republicans have decided that is exactly what they want. Instead of helping Detroit out, they put ideology ahead of the country.
Odetta's concert was more than I could ever tell you about now. I remembered being visited by things other than from this world.
Imagine a worst case scenario of terrorists sneaking just one nuke into New York City and setting it off at lunch hour. Thousands of people could be incinerated and the air poisoned for years.
Let's be clear, the Republican senators' moves against the Detroit bailout is not about $15 billion, which is a rounding error in the context of the Iraq surge or the financial bailout.
Dear Arianna, you're so nice, and I feel like we have this good thing going, so this isn't going to be easy, but it has to be said. I told you a lie on Tuesday. But it wasn't my fault. It was Bill Kristol's.
We need to do more than protect women -- we need to acknowledge their leadership. That's the basic tenet of "inclusive security."
At long last, our national love affair with the rich is coming to a close. Some people, like Alex Kuczynski, haven't received the memo, though.
