In September of 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten printed the now-infamous "Muhammad cartoons," sparking riots across the Muslim world, the burning of Danish embassies, and scores of deaths.

The cartoons were part of a nationwide debate on fundamentalist Islam, following the murder and...

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We've all had our fun in the run-up to Super Tuesday. We've dug up enough dirt on the Republican candidates to give them a hard time winning against a dead manatee. We've had time to either lament or celebrate the...

"They Took It Off The Table, So We Put It On The Stage."

On that defiant note, The Culture Project of New York has enlisted the help of Naomi Wolf, Lynn and Corin Redgrave, Lewis Lapham, Elizabeth de la Vega and dozens more scholars, artists, and activists to launch "A...

Nothing says, "I told you so" like writing a political parable a decade before it comes true. But the beauty of a good parable is that it has the feel of having already come true a hundred times before, and of...

Most everyone knows the pivotal quote from General Douglas MacArthur's farewell address, "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." The note he chose to end on in 1951 was modestly triumphant, the perfect close to the career of a consummate soldier.

He probably would have chosen his words differently...

Entertainers are driven by two commandments: Be Entertaining, and Be Informative. Unfortunately, it's been a red-letter day whenever someone was actually successful at doing both.

For each instant classic such as Thank You For Smoking or Hotel Rwanda, there have been a dozen...

A friend of mine has received a lot of calls in the wake of the Southern California wildfires from people who wanted to help. She's a coordinator for a family services clinic in San Diego. One call in particular stood out: A woman wanted to help the wildfire victims by...

When FEMA announced this Tuesday, October 23rd , with only fifteen minutes warning, that it would conduct a news conference for the California wildfires, no members of the press were able to physically attend.

So, faced with an empty house, desperate for a good review, and holding a script too...

The Comprehensive Peace Accord of 2005, of which Secretary of State Colin Powell had a hand in shaping, brought an end to Sudan's second civil war. The 21-year war between the dominantly Muslim Arab North and mostly non-Muslim African South concluded as the world's longest running civil war. With two...