Babes in TortureLand
Is waterboarding torture? And if so, is it illegal -- even when the president condones it? Or are there no limits to what a president can do, even if it's patently illegal?
Is waterboarding torture? And if so, is it illegal -- even when the president condones it? Or are there no limits to what a president can do, even if it's patently illegal?
Benjamin Hart | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics
When George W. Bush talks, there's not a trace of that sort of that Nixonian psychodrama -- or of the Nixonian playfulness.
Daniel Frick | Posted 01.15.2009 | Entertainment
The release of Frost/Nixon... offers yet another chance to explore our obsession with this man who, for many, functions as America's Satan.
Elizabeth Drew | Posted 01.14.2009 | Entertainment
The film's plot is a contrivance -- its telling is so riddled with departures from what actually happened as to be fundamentally dishonest; and its climactic moment is purely and simply a lie.
LA Times | Posted 01.04.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Sheen, who played talk show host David Frost both on stage and now in the upcoming screen version of "Frost/Nixon," knows that the transition ...
Marshall Fine | Posted 01.03.2009 | Entertainment
Ron Howard's film doesn't make me wish I'd seen the Broadway play on which it is based. Just the opposite: I was glad to come to it fresh, without a preconception about what it could, should or would be.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
Last week, the Bush administration extended the illegal and reckless plan allowing unsafe trucks from Mexico on our highways for another two years. Those plans are nothing short of illegal.
Rory O'Connor | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics