Would a truly patriotic American defend the practice of insanely profitable drug companies charging exorbitant fees for medicines that the elderly and infirm cannot afford?
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Everyone knows that genocide means mass murder and that the Holocaust should be restricted to the mass murder of 6 million Jews during World War II. Abuse of these terms is inexcusable.
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
War is now the American way, even if peace is what most Americans experience while their proxies fight in distant lands. Any serious alternative to war is increasingly inconceivable.
Johann Hari | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
The English language needs a spring cleaning to purge phrases that, while posing as neutral descriptions of the world, contain a hidden political agenda that then molds the assumptions of the listener.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment
In the documentary We Live in Public, director Ondi Timoner focuses on an experiment in which 100 people were shut into a Soho, NY basement with all the comforts of home, plus 24/7 surveillance.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
If you haven't seen them, some clever folks started showing up at these town hall protests with faux signs that make light of these Fox-fed people ranting and raving about Nazis and whatnot.
New York Times | Brad Stone | Posted 08.18.2009 | Media
In George Orwell's "1984," government censors erase all traces of news articles embarrassing to Big Brother by sending them down an incineration chute...
Michael Sigman | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
The most risible language contortions this side of Dick Cheney's tortured definitions of "torture" surround mavericky Sarah Palin, whose regular butchering of the English language rivals that of George W. Bush.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
I only hope that some woman is lucky enough to be with a man who becomes afflicted with one side effect Viagra claims, a condition known as priapism, ...
John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media
Glenn Beck's no longer bluffing. He's now pointing the finger at the Obama administration and declaring they're "marching us to a brand of nonviolent fascism."
Daily Telegraph | Roya Nikkhah | Posted 04.07.2009 | Media
Rare letters written by George Orwell, including missives to his secret lover, are to go on sale for the first time. ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
I'm on a lot of strange press lists, so I get a lot of strange press releases, but this is the first time I've ever gotten one from another dimension, I have to admit.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 12.08.2008 | Entertainment
There are, of course, serious issues raised by the advance of technology... and the rise of a ubiquitous media. But The Great Brain Suck has nothing new to say about them.
Charles Barber | Posted 11.03.2008 | Living
You may not know it, but today, Friday October 3, 2008 is World Smile Day. And it arrives not a moment too soon, given our current anxieties and pr...
NY Times' The Lede | Patrick Lyons | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Winston Smith, the protagonist in George Orwell's "1984," worked at a government job he hated, rewriting history to conform to current propaganda impe...
Steven Weber | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics