To Be or not to Be... Hopeful
"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim." - Margaret Thatcher (great line regardless of whether yo...
"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim." - Margaret Thatcher (great line regardless of whether yo...
Brent Budowsky | Posted 04.26.2012
In a Washington full of revolving-door sellouts who effortlessly glide between special-interest sinecures and government jobs earning personal fortunes on the payroll of the 1 percent, Elizabeth Warren will never sell her public conscience for private wealth.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.20.2012
Are the words "Obama isn't working," hung on a grey banner behind Mitt Romney's head at a campaign appearance in Ohio some sort of secret, racist dog-...
Michael Giltz | Posted 04.18.2012
War Horse is based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, a solid young adult novel with classic status in the UK. It was turned into a brilliant bit of theater (really, you should see it if at all possible). But Spielberg's film fails on every level.
D. R. Tucker | Posted 04.16.2012
I don't remember watching The Earth Day Special when it was first broadcast by ABC in April 1990. Perhaps if I had watched it 22 years ago, I would have avoided falling for the right's denialist trap.
AP | By JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.18.2012
CAMBRIDGE, England -- Margaret Thatcher was so fascinated by U.S. President Ronald Reagan that she snatched and kept a page of his doodles from a G7 s...
Jim DiPeso | Posted 04.29.2012
What is a conservative? The question has arisen as mercurial Republican voters search for that elusive presidential candidate who can make their conservative pulses quicken.
AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 04.13.2012
LONDON — Silent movie "The Artist" had a night to shout about Sunday, winning seven prizes including best picture at the British Academy Film Aw...
Sir Peter Westmacott | Posted 04.03.2012
Few would deny that Margaret Thatcher brought the United States and United Kingdom closer together. As I begin my tenure as British Ambassador to Washington, I look forward to playing my own small part in keeping that relationship in the best possible repair.
George Heymont | Posted 03.24.2012
It's been fascinating to see how critics have reacted to The Iron Lady, a new film inspired by Margaret Thatcher that has been directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Meryl Streep stars as the former British Prime Minister in a script written by Abi Morgan.
Brent Budowsky | Posted 03.21.2012
This is a story about three great women and two historic waves that embody the political, social, cultural, economic and consumer waves that are transforming America and the world in real time.
Wendy Bryan | Posted 03.19.2012
She took my elbow, escorting me around... she told me she must show me the blue room, or some room or other as I voiced my confusion over no ice cubes in the gin and tonics. She must have thought me an idiot.
Karin Kasdin | Posted 03.18.2012
The poor woman probably doesn't have many years left. Would it have cost anyone their livelihood to wait until her death to reveal her pitiful hallucinations to the world?
John Philip Newell | Posted 03.18.2012
Both Margaret Thatcher and Aung San Suu Kyi show extraordinary courage. But their courage is linked to radically different visions of leadership.
Lonna Saunders | Posted 03.17.2012
Meryl Streep deserves an Oscar for her portrayal of the love match between Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her late husband, Denis.
Posted 01.16.2012
If her 8 Golden Globe wins are any indication, Meryl Streep can take just about anything; including playing a political figure she disagrees with and ...
Brent Budowsky | Posted 03.13.2012
As conservatives prepare for an urgent meeting this weekend to discuss their options in the 2012 campaign, they face an epic crisis of identity and el...
Posted 01.13.2012
Meryl Streep sat down with Jimmy Kimmel last night, the day before the release of "The Iron Lady," Streep's new film about former U.K. Prime Minister ...
Posted 03.14.2012
Meryl Streep has been in the acting business a long time and so inevitably she's done a lot of interviews through those years. So Jimmy Kimmel decided...
Christopher Hitchens | Posted 03.13.2012
In this lost essay by the late Christopher Hitchens, he reveals his penchant for right-wing women. It is a brilliant, perfect jewel of an essay on politics and sexuality by a great writer.
Emma Gray | Posted 03.11.2012
First women were supposedly trying desperately to sound like Britney Spears and Ke$ha. Now, according to a new survey, there's a new female vocal role model: Margaret Thatcher.
Gabriel Schivone | Posted 03.11.2012
This week as communities the world over justly mourn the victims of last year's Tucson's shootings, the violent death of young Torres--one case in a larger pattern--remain barely known.
Iain Johnstone | Posted 03.10.2012
It has been known in Westminster and media circles for the the past nine years that Mrs. T was battling with dementia. But the British press chose not to intrude on her private life. So why would the British film industry choose to enter territory where Fleet Street feared to tread? The truth is: they didn't set out to.
Laura Flanders | Posted 03.07.2012
Today, in a new time of budget wars, The Iron Lady's depiction of draconian cuts as feminist guts is chilling. What Thatcher called "harsh medicine" meant one thing for the poor and another for the very powerful then, and it still does.
John Campbell | Posted 03.04.2012
It was predictable that Michele Bachmann would seize on the new Meryl Streep movie about Margaret Thatcher to try to revive her faltering campaign by pitching herself as America's Iron Lady. But does it fit?
Graham Milne | Posted 04.30.2012