The Essential Newt Gingrich -- Petty Tyrant, Thug
No one has been more of a divider and promoted the ugliness of politics more than Gingrich -- and he now accuses supporters of the 99% movement to be "un-American" and divisive.
No one has been more of a divider and promoted the ugliness of politics more than Gingrich -- and he now accuses supporters of the 99% movement to be "un-American" and divisive.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
In a police state, citizens live in fear of the police monitoring them. But what do you call it when the police themselves know that at any time or place while they are performing their duties, the citizens could be monitoring them?
Frank Dwyer | Posted 05.25.2011
Still got freedom -- to watch what Big Brother shows us and run on his wheel....
Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011
In an extemporaneous conversation with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Soros mentioned George Orwell's novel, 1984, as a possible precedent for the kind of fantasies being promulgated in our culture today.
Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011
The anticorruption campaign against Karzai's administration has become even more complicated because crooked elements within his inner circle are being paid off by the CIA, according to Afghan and American officials.
Telegraph | Bonnie Malkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Paul Hol, a volunteer for the charity Lifeline, found the book when he was sorting through the pile of donations. "It's in a remarkably good condition...
Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011
As a 22 year-old cub reporter for a music magazine, I freaked when my boss assigned me to interview "'The Strawberries,' a very important group," whic...
Mark Peters | Posted 05.25.2011
Words come from everywhere. TV shows are productive -- look at "Battlestar Galactica's" "frak," Stephen Colbert's "truthiness," and "30 Rock's" "blurg...
AP | LEANNE ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Chin Ma is 25 and looking for love. He paddles regularly in the dating pools online, paying fees to navigate millions of profiles bas...
The Guardian | Sean Michaels | Posted 05.25.2011
Sir Elton John is reportedly working on a stage adaptation of Animal Farm, teaming up with the writer of Billy Elliot, for a musical version of Georg...
Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of focusing on books that were published this year, how about focusing on years that have been published as books?
Bryant Welch | Posted 05.25.2011
For cults, and Fox News, their objective is total control of the victim's mind so that the viewer becomes the easily manipulated pawn of the cult. Right, Glenn Beck? Bill O'Reilly?
Marc Hershon | Posted 05.25.2011
Amazon slapped my sense of ownership and control across the face yesterday when I learned they reached right into the Kindles of anumber of customers and deleted -- irony of ironies -- copies of George Orwell's 1984.
Sandy Tolan | Posted 05.25.2011
What is the ethical responsibility of the journalist in telling the story of the Other? And what larger forces come to bear in shaping that story in the press?
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm on a lot of strange press lists, so I get a lot of strange press releases, but this is the first time I've ever gotten one from another dimension, I have to admit.
Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011
The distortions coming from the campaign make it impossible to determine who John McCain is beyond the noise, the distractions
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011
Scientology and establishment psychiatry have something else in common. They are both orthodoxies that deal harshly with their ex-insiders who have come to reject them.
Roderick Spencer | Posted 05.25.2011
Before it all goes blurry and fictional in the retelling, allow me to recapitulate my personal list of astonishments from Denver.
Paul Abrams | Posted 02.07.2012