For many years, theoretical physicists have kicked around the idea that there might exist, alongside our own universe, alternative universes where different realities are taking place. Some even postulated that it might be possible to visit such places, perhaps through warps in the space-time continuum. Stephen Hawking, the brilliant successor...

Forty years ago, Bob Dylan penned a powerful lyrical poem on the assassination of Medgar Evers. In Only a Pawn in Their Game, Dylan laid bare the way in which the political power structure in the South had, for decades, manipulated poor Southern whites to ignore the common economic and...

In 1968, I worked my heart and soul out for the election of Robert F. Kennedy. I took a semester off college to work full-time for his election; I started a draft-Kennedy group and when he became a candidate, I managed to get myself elected as a DNC delegate. I...

This time at least, opinions from both the pundits and from the convention floor were one: Hillary Clinton did what she had to do. Indeed, it was perhaps the finest moment of her historic campaign. Freed from the pressure to try to distinguish herself from another Democratic candidate with whom...

In your opinion, what term best describes interviewer and pastor Rick Warren's assurance to the 2,000 audience members at his Saddleback church and the nationwide broadcast audience of millions -- or at least a couple of hundred thousand -- that John McCain was in the next room, in...

Today I picked up, and spent the day perusing, a wonderful new book, Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, by Eric Ethridge. It is simple and powerful. It lays out, in stark black and white, the mug shots of 328 brave men and women who between...

OK, maybe it's just because I'm getting ready to head to Denver in a week or two along with the rest of the delegates that's starting to make me nervous and think thoughts I never thought I'd be thinking. Like maybe we ought to revisit seriously the issue of putting...

Russia's invasion of Georgia may well prove the most important, potentially decisive, development of the 2008 Presidential campaign. It could give the GOP the one thing it needs to win: a big fear issue.

Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, the neocon right has groped for...