2009 was a year of momentum for the LGBT community. For the first time, federal legislation was passed that included sexual orientation and gender ide...
The papers have been full of editorials expounding on why the past decade was disastrous for America. There is much to forget and regret about the la...
Welcome back to my annual outright theft of The McLaughlin Group's awards categories for the past year in politics. What's that? We're sorry, but ou...
Kennedy's phrasing is often used to describe the Cold War with communism, but I think his "twilight struggle" referred to the human condition itself.
Full-body scans are like your first visit to a nude beach. Or Barack Obama's first year in office: unreasonably high expectations dashed by dumpy, lumpy pedestrian reality.
In the meantime, this absolutely unnecessary process of strip mining has devastated the peace and prosperity of a region for over a generation.
Why are we sending nearly every Marine and Soldier we have to Afghanistan, when Abdulmutallab and a Somali man arrested for plotting a similar attack last month apparently had no real connection to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan?
It's not going to happen here in the United States -- peace -- not in this coming year, not in my lifetime, or in many lifetimes.
Late last year, when Barack Obama trounced the McCain-Palin ticket, a phrase kept crossing my mind: "No More Mister White Guy." The signs and omen...
We may look back on the '00s as the time when we began to turn in a new direction -- one that can sustain us and the planet, powered by the aspirations and power of ordinary people.
2009 was certainly not a year of triumphs for mankind nor human kindliness. The world economic crisis is neither diagnostically nor therapeutically on the way to a solution.
President Obama's support for Wall Street, rather than Main street, is behind the public anger and frustration, Arianna argued on Morning Joe. She ...
On December 9, world leaders debated global climate in Copenhagen and Obama was in ...
The past ten years have a structure, a form, a shape that could almost be mapped out in one of those Syd Field books for aspiring screenwriters.
In President Obama's much-vaunted 2009 speech in Cairo, he made a commitment to supporting reform in the Arab world. Though there was plenty in the s...
As soon as health care wraps up in Congress, Washington's number one public policy issue must become winning approval of a plan to end our dangerous and costly dependence on foreign oil.
No longer a solitary whistleblower, the lone individual can now link up to like minds around the globe, share information and develop strategies for change. Real change, after all, happens from the inside out.
Progressives can be as bad as teabaggers, with their chronic dissatisfaction, ideological disdain for compromise, and limited understanding of historical precedent.
Are Muslim only lines at airports next? The thought is offensive, disgusting, and blatantly unconstitutional. But it's hardly far-fetched. Three yea...
The United States owes it to the Iranian people to do what it can to help. We should not see assistance to Iranians in their struggle now as an optional act of benevolence, but as an ethical responsibility.
Maybe there won't be enough burial plots if they grant the wish of every soldier's mom who wants to be buried with her dead child. If that's true then we're in worse trouble than we think.
