I can understand Jesse Jackson's jealousy at watching a young, smart black man like Barack Obama do what he has tried and failed to do his entire career.
Elizabeth Shipp | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
James Dobson and Tony Perkins, and John McCain don't have the guts to stand up and speak the truth about their radical, out-of-the-mainstream views.
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green
While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.
Andrei Markovits and Jeff Weintraub | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Despite the swooning praises of Obama from the western European chattering classes, the reality is that someone in their own countries with Obama's political style would actually turn them off.
David Roberts | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
McCain -- who just weeks ago said of the Climate Security Act, "I hope it will pass," -- now says he won't show up to vote on it. He won't vote against it, mind you. He just won't show.
Erica Jong | Posted 04.29.2008 | Entertainment
As a natural nudist, who comes from a family of natural nudists, the Miley Cyrus flap astounds me. What is this nonsense? Well, it's an occasion for another apology.
Linda Hansen | Posted 04.13.2008 | Home
Are we bitter in Povertyland, USA? Hell, yes. That's what the story was about. We've been hung out to dry so long, we feel like ragged, abandoned laundry. All those election year promises? Please.
James Heffernan | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
Five years ago today, just before dawn broke over Baghdad, U.S. forces launched the Iraq War by dropping four bunker-buster bombs and forty Tomahawk missiles on a palace compound.
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
It's impossible to describe the relationship between politicians, lobbyists, corporations, and campaign cash -- and have it come out sounding different than what a prostitute does for a living.
Martin Lewis | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics
My choice is that people ignore the reflexive hagiographic obituaries that gloss over or underplay Henry Hyde's considerable negative impact on the nation -- and remember him for what he really was.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics
One of the clever things Fox does to cover their actions is show the soft core crap then have a conservative on to rail against the stuff, as it plays gratuitously on the screen.
Howie Klein | Posted 10.27.2007 | Politics
Gay employees and straight non-bigots at Warner Bros, and that pretty much accounts for almost everyone who works there, are pretty disappointed, to put it mildly... and I'm not the only one getting complaints.
Jamie Court | Posted 10.01.2007 | Business
Chevron's continued lucrative investment in the natural gas fields of Myanmar fuels a despotic regime that has focused its "human energy" on violently suppressing its citizens.
Alex Leo | Posted 09.21.2007 | Media
Is it more dangerous to have Sally Field decrying an unpopular war at the Emmys? Or passing off pretty ladies as serious journalists?
Tom Gregory | Posted 09.06.2007 | Politics
Just like the jets zigzagging across Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport last June, trains crossed through Milford station in director David Lean's 1945's film noir masterpiece Brief Encounter.
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 09.02.2007 | Politics
The Republicans' cynical use of pseudo-morality served as the initial seduction into this current nadir in American political life.
Martin Lewis | Posted 08.31.2007 | Politics
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Ray Hanania | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics