Kelly Moore

This was supposed to be a column about the NFL's punishment of New Orleans Saints' coaches and players for their role in running a bounty program in which players were paid to level injurious hits on opponents. Specifically, I was going to applaud NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for taking an...

I recently received my Winter 2012 newsletter from my pseudo-representative in Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents the District of Columbia. I say "pseudo" because Norton is merely a disenfranchised liaison between D.C. residents and the House of Representatives. (The Senate doesn't even bother with such a charade.)

In fact,...

The New York Times Sunday Magazine ran a story called "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body." The article is woefully one-sided, all but guaranteeing physical distress to anyone who dares to set foot on a yoga mat. Nevertheless, bringing yoga-related injuries out of the closet is a welcome...

On Friday, the NCAA put a bull's eye on the back of the Penn State football program.

In a letter to the president of the university, the NCAA said they were examining issues related to institutional control and ethical conduct stemming from the university's handling of a...

All you need to know about the Penn State Board of Trustees is that they had an envelope delivered to Joe Paterno's house Wednesday night approximately 15 minutes before their scheduled press conference to announce his firing. According to ESPN sources, there was a note inside the envelope with a...

Let's get one thing straight about the unfolding child sex abuse scandal at Penn State, where a former football coach is accused of molesting eight boys over 15 years: it happened because a group of men chose to be cowards. For a sport that thrives on testosterone it is tragically...

You know something is seriously wrong when people who have the option of sleeping in the comfort of their own beds instead choose to sleep in parks across America to drive home a point. Which is why the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations and their off-shoots deserve a standing ovation. Bravo!...

I was sitting at my desk in the Hart Senate Office building when the first plane hit the World Trade Center's north tower. I heard the news report, glanced up at the television in my office and quickly turned my attention back to the email I was composing. If they...

I recently saw The Whistleblower, a film about sex trafficking involving United Nations, diplomatic and international military personnel in Bosnia some 10 years ago. It was well done as far as these things go, but the reaction of the audience at the end of the film was depressing. When the...

Just when I thought I couldn't be more outraged at Congress, I found out they went on vacation for five weeks.

No doubt many of them will claim they are going back to their districts because spending time with their constituents is a vital part of their work. But if...

With the national debt talks entering the home stretch, my advice to President Obama is to ask the co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission, Tom Kaine and Lee Hamilton, a Republican and a Democrat respectively, to serve as envoys between the various political factions (because there are more than...

With the nation about to go into default, members of Congress were forced to cancel their July 4th recess and report to work (like the rest of America) on Tuesday. It's about time.

Through the first six months of the year, the House and Senate

Enough of Weinergate. And all of the bad jokes. Please. Even politicians are entitled to a private life. Besides, considering we're a country at war and the federal government is weeks away from running out of money, there are other more important things to talk (and worry) about.

But...

Today I saw a picture of the main boulevard in Misurata and I couldn't help but think how much it looked like another such thoroughfare -- Sniper Alley in Sarajevo. I have been in that movie, I thought. Sigh.

I have never been to Libya, but I lived in...

The email was waiting for me in the morning. I knew by the subject line, "Marty," what had happened so I pretended not to see it. Made myself some breakfast: tea, a blueberry poptart, some strawberries. Read the newspaper. Three of them actually. Did what I could to delay the...

It is perhaps fitting that I had breakfast this morning with a friend I met while working in Sarajevo during the war that ravaged Bosnia more than 15 years ago. The first thing she told me was that Ratko Mladic, one of the engineers of the Serb campaign of ethnic...