Via BoingBoing, comes this amazing picture of a "Garden Noam Chomsky" -- a sculpture featured in The Nation's charity auction this year. It's a tiny l...
Scott Atran | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living
In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of universals. At the time, I was working for Margaret Mead as one of her assistants.
The Boston Herald | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Professor Noam Chomsky may be among America's most enduring anti-war activists. But the leftist intellectual's antho...
Betwa Sharma | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
Millions died not because the right doctrine was missing. There was no political will to act. The Council did not need R2P to intervene in Rwanda and it doesn't need it now.
Jeff Norman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
Bill Maher blasted the Democratic Party for kowtowing to its corporate paymasters, and bemoaned the lack of real liberals on ballots and television.
Warren Holstein | Posted 06.06.2009 | Comedy
1. George W. Bush for RIF (Reading Is Fundamental). He's is not just the former president, he's a client.
The Real News | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
Chomsky believes the economic system in America is built in a way that often penalizes the public.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 03.04.2009 | World
Craddock granted a license to kill to every NATO soldier under his command and required the soldiers to perpetrate a massacre of Afghani civilians 'suspected' of involvement in the drug trade.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media
The battle over blaming the media seems to have heated up to levels commensurate with the actual battle over the Holy Land. Can the media really be fueling both sides in the Gaza conflict simultaneously?
Paula B. Mays | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
The suffering innocents in Iraq remain invisible. We barely know the names of the American soldiers who have died, but as to the innocent non-combatants in Iraq, we know even less.
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
He is aiming, as he always said he would, to bring red and blue together, to create a United States of America. However naïve and unattainable that goal may be -- that is his goal. He is Mr. Middle.
Ben Cohen | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
If you thought the $700 billion bailout was bad, think again. The Federal Reserve is apparently handing out two trillion dollars in loans and it won't disclose where the money is going to.
Ben Cohen | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business
Noam Chomsky's encyclopedic knowledge of political, philosophical and economic issues is simply breathtaking, as is his ability to break complex subjects down to their rawest essentials.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
[Today's Hallowe'en column is in two ghastly parts -- one frightful, fingernail-chewing tale for each side of the corpse-ridden and zombified politica...
The Real News | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
In an interview, Noam Chomsky urges the voters in swing states to vote against McCain, therefore for Obama, while maintaining realistic expectations about the Democratic candidate.
Posted 12.07.2009 | Comedy