The dirty little secret of the Iraq war isn't in Baghdad or Basra. Rather, it's found in the squalid brothels of Damascus and the poorest neighborhood...
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home
Colorblind? Post-racial? Isn't it clear that's all so much bullshit. We are all animals prone to prejudice. The price of continued denial among the Obama camp could be the election.
Ellen Feldman | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
The pressure to vote for gender rather than policy and personal substance reminds me once again of the Scottsboro case which turned sexual politics on its head for half the twentieth century.
Linda Keenan | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media
It may be a tough and boring road for you, without those gunshot wounds and helicopter-hovers that seemed to liven up your drab suburban life. But we're here for you, Boo.
Allison Shigo | Posted 03.04.2008 | Entertainment
Women in developing countries are either dying while giving birth or dying a symbolic death when they develop a fistula and are left to live the rest of their lives alone.
Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 02.22.2008 | Business
China has been a convenient scapegoat for politicians lately, and now China, with its crawling peg to the weak dollar, is being blamed for exporting inflation. Is this political spin, or is there a real danger of importing higher inflation from China?
Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
Let's see, McCain has bowed to the party's lunatic fringe on tax cuts, immigration, the intolerance of religious bigots, and torture...so exactly how is he reinventing what it means to be a Republican?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics
McCain is the world's worst panderer, mainly because his pandering is exacerbated by a stunning ineptness. Somehow, all of McCain's inconsistencies strike Kristof as laudable.
Alan Miller | Posted 12.02.2007 | Media
Kristof told the audience that it was 'people like you...young people' that would make the difference in stopping genocide in Darfur, as historically the U.S. has not intervened.
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New York Times | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics