Cairo--As expected, many things went wrong on the first day of Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections. Ballots arrived late at approximately 900 polling stations and, in a few cases, angry voters held judicial monitors hostage after their ballots failed to arrive. Meanwhile, candidates nationwide scrambled to correct their...

According to Sports Illustrated baseball writer Tom Verducci, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is weighing a plan to realign baseball's divisions -- sort of. Basically, teams at a competitive disadvantage would be able to switch temporarily into other divisions, so they could play more games against less...

The news that Sarah Palin will be joining Fox News Channel as a contributor is the latest indication that the line between news analysis and outright politicking is under attack.

To be sure, Palin is hardly the first politician to pose as a newsman: Mike Huckabee has...

In the aftermath of Andre Dawson's somewhat surprising induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, baseball writers are struggling to demonstrate the Hawk's greatness. In this vein, a photo caption on Sports Illustrated's website noted: "Andre Dawson, Willie Mays and Barry Bonds are the only players with 400 homeruns and...

If you've been following CODEPINK's so-called "Gaza Freedom March" on the blogosphere, then you probably know what it is against.

First and foremost, it is against the "siege of Gaza." We don't know whether it was similarly against the thousands of rockets that Hamas fired onto...

I've worn a Boston Red Sox cap to Yankee Stadium. I've campaigned for Republican candidates in Philadelphia. And I've entered Israel with a Syrian stamp on my passport. But nothing could have prepared me for the scrutiny I faced when I walked into an Ann Taylor Loft to buy holiday...

On Friday night, the New Jersey Nets finally won their first game of the season, defeating the Charlotte Bobcats 97-91 and ending an NBA-record-setting run of futility.  Yet far from ending the Nets’ woes, this victory actually creates more questions than it answers.  First and foremost, how can the...

Last week during a press conference in Beijing, President Barack Obama endorsed one of the most propagandized of pop theories regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When asked about Israel's plan to build 900 apartment units in Gilo - a Jewish neighborhood of southwest Jerusalem beyond the Green Line - Obama

The first decade of the 21st century may go down as the most painful in New York Mets history.

Of course, it started with great promise: in 2000, the Mets made it to the playoffs for the second year in a row and won the National League championship. But it...

This year's Yankees-Phillies World Series has generated much awkwardness for transplanted New York Mets fans living in Philadelphia, such as myself. Long the objects of Yankees fans' gloating and Phillies fans' scorn, we have suddenly become recipients of their sympathies -- with an explicit agenda, of course.

Indeed,...