In his speech at Columbia University, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeated two myths about the Holocaust.
John McQuaid | Posted 10.01.2007 | Media
Demagoguery drives the news cycle now more than ever. And confronting demagoguery feeds the media hunger for drama.
Dennis Perrin | Posted 09.28.2007 | Media
Ahmadinejad serves a sick need in American political circles; and if he didn't exist, another Iranian figure would be tarted up for bipartisan hatred.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
"We have nothing to hide," Mr. Ahmadinejad said in a speech to the UN General Assembly.
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
A university does not bring deadly microbes to campus because it is "dignifying" or "endorsing" the microbes. It brings them to campus in order to study and to understand them.
Alec Baldwin | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
His grasp of history seems so tentative. He smirks a lot. He wants to visit Ground Zero, perhaps to get his hands on some of that 9/11 political equity.
MarketWatch | Jon Friedman | Posted 09.26.2007 | Media
Politicians, pundits, journalists, diplomats, talk-show bookers, historians and social scientists all paid rapt attention to Iranian President Mahmoud...
Michael Shaw | Posted 09.26.2007 | Media
I mean, you almost expect it from a rag like the Daily News, but what about everybody else?
Associated Press | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 09.25.2007 | Home
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Tuesday that his country's disputed nuclear program is closed as a political issue, and said Tehran wi...
Evan Thomas | Posted 09.25.2007 | Politics
The energy of the students stood as an incontrovertible rebuttal to those who doubted the academic and cultural purpose of Ahmadinejad's visit.
Sarah Leonard | Posted 09.25.2007 | Politics
Ahmadinejad surely understands that in giving women power, women could begin to have a much greater impact on the Iranian society that now holds them hostage.
Andrew J. Nusca | Posted 09.25.2007 | Politics
The real story behind the podium is how much this pseudo-event is a victory for both the Columbia University and Iranian public relations teams.
Joe Cutbirth | Posted 09.25.2007 | Politics
At Columbia yesterday, colleagues with different perceptions of Ahmadinejad had come -- most with open minds. But with one crazy statement, his credibility was gone.
Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 09.24.2007 | Politics
After deciding to let the Iranian President speak as a way to promote debate, he nails the guy to the proverbial cross with his searing introduction.
Jane Smiley | Posted 09.24.2007 | Politics
Would President Bush allow the same sorts of confrontations President Ahmadinejad has? I doubt it. He doesn't even allow himself to be confronted by Americans who disagree with him.
Jon Host | Posted 09.24.2007 | Politics
I found Lee Bollinger's petty insults to be unnecessarily aggressive and uncivil. He promised a "robust discourse" and delivered a bait-and-switch public admonition.
Sen. Mike Gravel | Posted 09.24.2007 | Politics
By snubbing Ahmadinejad, we snub the Iranian government and its people. Right now, such a snub is not only wrong-headed, it's dangerous.
AP | Posted 09.24.2007 | Home
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his speech at Columbia University by saying that criticism from University President Lee Bollinger was an ...
Thom Hartmann | Posted 09.23.2007 | Politics
Columbia University, by inviting Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak, has shown confidence in the wisdom and adultness of their students and our republic.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 09.23.2007 | Politics
It is time for the world to boldly declare the clarion call of a new generation: no tolerance for intolerance.
William Organek | Posted 09.23.2007 | Politics
Engagement without appeasement is the only way to peacefully resolve our differences. Now is not the time to isolate Iran -- isolation is what got Iran into this mess in the first place.
Raghida Dergham | Posted 09.23.2007 | Politics
El Baradei should know what lies behind Iran's regional policy, especially particularly regarding Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon.
Azadeh Ensha | Posted 09.23.2007 | Politics
If Ahmadinejad wasn't afforded the opportunity to speak, and to offer up more inflammatory remarks, then the right would be without this easy ammunition in its ongoing campaign to invade Iran.
Stephen Cox | Posted 09.23.2007 | Politics
The people should be the front line in guarding our right to create our own educated foreign policy, engage the world, and avoid against another idiotic neoconservative war.
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Alan Dershowitz | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics