Joe Lieberman gave us a heavy stomping. So today he's strutting around Washington with a humongous smile and boasting he showed them. Why did Joe do a quick U-turn on expanding Medicare? Because liberals favored an expansion of Medicare!

And he certainly showed younger Americans when it...

The line is drawn. Will it be a public option or no public option? The two sides are glaring at each other. Heaving verbal missiles at each other. Racing to the cameras to tell their stories. On one side are youth and liberals, and on the other side elders and...

Afghanistan is a nasty, dangerous place. When a journalist covering that war, I'm hounded by the thought, "I could be torn to shreds any second." Several weeks ago at the Woodstock Film Festival watching The Tiger Next Door, it occurred to me, "I could be torn to shreds any...

Year after year, the Pentagon doles out mega-billions for the most sophisticated and expensive war-fighting armaments. And year after year ragtag hostiles with primitive arms and no formal military training circumvent and neutralize our most expensive and sophisticated and deadly weapons. From conflicts in Southeast Asia to the Middle East...

This press release was just issued by the US military in Afghanistan:

KABUL, Afghanistan (October 27) - Eight U.S. service members and an Afghan civilian working with ISAF were killed today in multiple complex IED attacks in southern Afghanistan. Additionally, several service members were wounded in these incidents and...

There are approximately 4,000 film festivals in the world. In the last decade, there has been a whopping 400 percent spike in new festivals. Film festivals are popping up faster than Starbucks.

Unlike coffee chains, film festivals need to be distinctive, to distinguish themselves from the other 3,999 festivals....

The biographical documentary, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, tells the story of a central figure and public spokesperson for a community that furiously challenged America's status quo. In telling the story of their father, the radical attorney William Kunstler, daughters Emily and Sarah...

Stewart's 5th Blog from Woodstock Film Festival

Davey and Nicole have a great relationship. They communicate extremely well. They are gentle and considerate. They feel secure and safe together. And they have fantastic sex.

This is extraordinary in an era when selfishness is considered quintessential American and...

Stewart's 4th Blog From Woodstock Film Festival

In every American city, you see them. Even in small town America, you see them. Sometimes standing on the street in a small group. More often you see them working -- washing dishes in a restaurant, cutting a lawn in...

Stewart's 3rd blog from the Woodstock Film Festival.

If you want to watch an entertaining movie, go to your local multiplex. If you want your emotions shot out of a cannon, go see The Messenger.

Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery, played with subtleness and depth by Ben Foster, is a...

The Woodstock Film Festival kicked off with a film on, not a surprise, the Woodstock Music Festival. You know, that half-million strong, "the New York Thruway is closed, man," generational defining whopper of a film festival in the the Catskill Mountains.

Woodstock: Now and Then, directed by Barbara Kopple,...

I squeeze into a narrow, packed bar. Twisting and weaving through the tangled human knot, I pass a line of muffled orange lights running under and behind a long bar. There are dim red lights high above. On the far wall a large wall poster proclaims "Woodstock Film Festival." This...

Pumped with anticipation, yet stalked by heavy dread, neither of which will back off, I finally decide. It's been 40 years since Woodstock and I must return for the anniversary concert. That's it, I'm going!

It is not easy to go back in time. The further you go back, the...

Kabul, Afghanistan -- Well it's official. Everyone can now relax. The US government is scraping its opium poppy eradication program in Afghanistan.

Convinced that razing the cash crop grown by dirt-poor Afghan farmers is costing badly needed friends along the front lines of the fight against Taliban-led insurgents, U.S....

Kabul, Afghanistan -- Having been in Afghanistan for four months, traveling around the country and reporting on the war, the "crucial operation" of the war is now in full-swing. And where am I? In the brutal grip of one devastating hangover! In the deserted Mustafa hotel -- the other...

Kabul, Afghanistan - Everything takes twice as long in Afghanistan. Security concerns, infrastructure disruptions, cultural sluggishness, epidemic corruption all converge to make life extremely cautious and the pace excruciating slow. So, what I promised to do in two weeks, write a follow-up blog, has taken me four weeks. I blame...

The best blogs nail down one key point, writes Bob Creamer in The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging. Many of the contributors warn that to wander or ruminate or zigzag will have your reader click-skip off into cyber-space. That's not good. So blogging is about brevity. Blogging is about...

For seven-and-a-half years, the US military had a mission without adequate resources and without a sensible plan to kill Osama bin Laden and to annihilate the Taliban, and to deliver peace and prosperity to Afghanistan. We're batting 100 percent.

To highlight our stellar national failure, in each successive year...

Three years ago, Afghans were disappointed and frustrated. In Kabul, they would ask me:

"Why are there still open sewers in our capital?"

"Why are there still no jobs?"

"Why are our lives not better after billons of US foreign aid dollars?"

Kabul, capital of one of...

Soon to be blogging from Afghanistan

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is off to Russia, to plead for a new supply route to Afghanistan. Then he will drop in on Europe, to plead for more European troops for Afghanistan. But I'm still mulling over what happened three days ago. That's...