We owe the way we
know the world to school-masters
droning over the map of the day,
blurbing stories of how empty
space gets magically replaced with
god's country, experts
slurping fables into tables that
don't...

The deficit is now all the rage. Though post-election polls show it's jobs and economic certainty that voters want most, it's the deficit that's getting the attention. The influx of anti-government-and-taxes patriots has something to do with this, and since the votes have been cast all parties can express their...

The most recent measure signed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer makes it illegal for public school courses to "advocate ethnic solidarity." It's supposedly meant to challenge programs that teach Mexican-American students about their history and culture in the belief that they produce "ethnic chauvinism," the words of Tom Horne, the...

The blown call by Jim Joyce that took a perfect game away from Detroit's Armando Galarraga should have been reversed by Bud Selig. Mistakes are made in professional sports, and umpires and referees are humans who will and are expected to make them. But millions of fans saw the replay...

Jonah Goldberg's recent comments in the LA Times on the Tea Party gathering in Cincinnati focus on an important fact about this "movement," the fiscal fury toward both Obama and Bush over deficits. If we're seeing a "delayed backlash" against Bush in the rants and ravings of these "patriots," praise...

As Obama's first year in office wraps we have to wonder how he squandered such a great opportunity to produce real "change," the theme that inspired his campaign. Those who expected it are disillusioned; those who didn't gloat on the marooned administration. The election rhetoric made many believe something was...

As Obama's first year in office wraps, we have to wonder how he squandered such a great opportunity to produce real "change," the theme that inspired his campaign. Those who expected it are disillusioned; those who didn't gloat at the marooned administration. The election rhetoric made many believe something was...

Obama's Nobel acceptance speech was an embarrassing justification for the potential of war to produce peace. If the committee had voted after his decision to boot up the Afghan war, would he have gotten the prize? Not judging by the committee's explanation: it voted to affirm Obama's desire to achieve...

Ann Pettifor asked on Huffington Post recently whether all those "top stories" in the media these days are just for "top people." Citing surveys at the Pew Research Center showing that stories about the suffering of ordinary people in the recession have nearly vanished from the media, she wonders...

The Bush-Obama strategy of throwing trillions at the banks to solve the mortgage crisis has been a failure. The banks welcome public money to remove toxic assets from their books, insured by we-the-taxpayers, as well as the hundreds of billions in direct handouts, but they've hardly returned the favor. They've...

Mr. Obama's recent words to the Muslim world may have hit their target. Many from across the political spectrum and around the globe are praising his powers of persuasion. They got the message. We need to break through our protective skins of prejudice and sectarian belief and see others...

The "debate" about how we're now on the slippery slope of socialism is truly a farce this time around! Virtually everything the Obama administration is doing, as Harold Meyerson said recently in the Washington Post, is about salvaging capitalism, and with mostly the same filter-down policies that got us...

Barack Obama's victory is indeed inspirational. At last the Bush regime is gone and we patiently wait to see what sort of change our new leader has in mind. His appointments have already raised suspicion. They're not the ones progressives expected, those who would truly revolutionize Washington. We won't see...