What do you get for the despotic oil sheik who has everything? A little peace of mind of course -- the kind that only comes with tens of billions of dollars worth of fearsome American weaponry. The gift of freedom has proven disastrous for President Bush in Iraq. The

"The Director [of the Office of National Drug Control Policy] and the Deputies deserve the most recognition because they actually had to give up time with their families for the god awful places we sent them."
-Karl Rove [pdf]

You've got to give Karl Rove credit for...

Judging by his delusional "progress report" on Iraq, President Bush is determined to go down with this ship. He of course won't perish by holding on to a failed policy of military intervention in Iraq, but 3,611 American combat men and women have died already and more will die...

It has become an article of faith for the Bush administration and for the few remaining supporters of continued U.S. deployment in Iraq that the withdrawal of U.S. forces would be an unmitigated catastrophe. This is perhaps the last desperate line of defense when all other rationales for war have...

I went to see Gunter Grass on Monday night, over at the 92nd Street Y in the company of a good friend. Grass was there to read from Peeling the Onion, his recently published autobiography, in which Grass -- a Nobel laureate and the conscience of postwar Germany in confronting...

As Iran's scientists busily enrich uranium, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues to project defiance against an America that is hopelessly entangled in Iraq and hemorrhaging international prestige. These would seem to be good times for Ahmadinejad and his fellow hardliners in the Islamic Revolutionary government: America has crushed their great...

As a legal immigrant to the United States, I suppose I should feel terribly outraged by illegal immigration. I "played by the rules," after all, unlike all the illegals who sneaked in across the border or overstayed their visas and are now busy, if the hysterical nativist rhetoric is to...