The more I "succeed" in life, the more I'm repulsed by the one-tenth of one percent "above" me and the more I long for the values, ethics, and unseen valor of the "unwashed masses."
ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...
Keli Goff | Posted 11.30.2009 | Entertainment
When people like Mr. Harvey Weinstein paint the former president as harmful to Americans but Roman Polanski as merely misunderstood, they are proving every anti-Hollywood conservative's point for them.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Public libraries, like schools or the fire department, are not luxuries. The public library is more than just our soul. It is our lifeblood.
Anis Shivani | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
Some African-Americans, seemingly born under an auspicious star, apparently have always gathered to share their leisure pursuits with others who were similarly favored.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 09.06.2009 | Style
The Obamas aren't coming to Newport to vacation, but one hundred or even fifty years ago they would have. An idyllic spot, it's about to become the subject of several new books.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
Epithets like "socialist" and "fascist" enable people on the right to bond with each other and -- though they may not acknowledge it -- to alienate everybody else.
Sahil Kapur | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
By deflecting their elitism onto their rivals, the party of plutocrats has for decades held the trust of millions of Americans while simultaneously swindling them.
Ian Welsh | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living
Then there are a fair number of politicians who will tell you about the lousy jobs they had as teenagers, or maybe in their early twenties. But they knew they weren't staying there.
Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 03.11.2009 | World
Any positive changes Iceland's PM and her female colleagues will bring about will be because they are in tune with the values of society at large, rather than the values of the current ruling elite.
Beth Arnold | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild must be one of the worst sports that has stepped onto the political stage in a very long time. When Hillary Clinton ...
Jennifer Bogut | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home
HERE'S MY TAKE #4. QUESTIONS: What should the campaigns spend money on and what do you see as the effect of negative ads?
Pam Atherton | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home
I don't want someone who believes their biggest asset is that they know what it's like to shop at WalMart and take their kids to hockey practice in a mini-van. How will that help in negotiations and diplomatic missions with other heads of state?
Thom Hartmann | Posted 10.30.2008 | Media
America loves its elites -- we love our sports stars, our movie stars, our rock stars and even our political stars.
Johann Hari | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
In 1920, Big Oil picked an obscure, bumbling senator named Warren G. Harding who had barely been out of Ohio and had only fuzzy ideas about politics -- the 1920s equivalent of a hockey mom.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
John McCain said something ridiculous to a reporter yesterday. I hasten to point out that the previous sentence should have been a major media headlin...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
I don't usually comment on sports, so take anything I say with a grain of salt. I'm no professional sports guy, nor do I play one on the web. But I h...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
I have to assume if you're reading this that you're sick of the Olympics already. Wow, that was fast. Is NBC's coverage going to be twice as bad as ...
Carine Fabius | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
How do republicans keep doing it? They take a nice word like "liberal," pummel it to death with nonsense, it becomes a label so awful that politicians trip over themselves running away from it.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...
Joan Williams | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Obama's doing a great job keeping the focus on the economy. Let's not blow it on the cultural front.
Douglas MacKinnon | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics