"I'm Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, and this is my band." She stood alone on the stage.

When she started to sing, I was spellbound. She sounded like a Motown songstress. But that does not describe her style: While mostly folk-rock, this versatile Maine artist plays bluegrass on the banjo, and...

She was stunningly beautiful. I still remember the sheen of her black hair, her creamy complexion. She was at the San Francisco Book Festival, hawking a book of photographs. She seemed to be twenty-five, although I learned later that her skin held fast to her secret. Her name was Fredrika,...

If I were the Secret Service, I'd be investigating me about now. There is a 2006 photo of me sitting next to Senator Ted Kennedy, Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis, and Congressman Silvestre Reyes. Two of these three are now dead.

We were at an event...

Imagine if German politicians, in order to bolster their chances of being elected chancellor, had to declare publically that they could see nothing wrong with flying the swastika, Germany's flag during the "War of British Aggression".

Imagine if U.S.-born jihadists seized WMD and killed...

The Lord of Flies nestled within America's intelligence establishment sent lead bees to sting Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, and Malcolm X when each was only 39.

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is now 39.

A real-life Robin Hood,...

"Where in the Constitution is 'separation of church and state'?"

The laughter erupted in the lecture hall, as if this were the studio of the comedy show Politically Incorrect and not a debate between the Democratic and Republican nominees for U.S. Senate in the state of Delaware.

The media had...

In late July 2010, Ben Jealous, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, denounced Shirley Sherrod, a black woman whom Jealous said "in her position at USDA [the Department of Agriculture]... mistreated a white farmer in need of assistance because of his race."...

A recent email by Harvard law student Stephanie Grace allegedly asserts, "I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent." According to the Harvard Crimson newspaper's blog, this email was forwarded to black...

In Germany and Austria, it is a crime to express support for National Socialism; it is even problematic to honor soldiers who died fighting for Hitler.

But Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell, whistling to dogs, has declared April 2010 "Confederate History Month."

These dogs are rabid. Neo-Confederate organizations, such...

Robert Kuttner is the latest in a series of people calling for the head of Larry Summers, Director of the National Economic Council, for not doing enough to heal an economy that is hemorrhaging jobs.

But Kuttner has to stand in line.

On January...