Considering all the hoopla we make over Thanksgiving, I'd be willing to bet that most Americans believe the Pilgrims were the first non-native American settlers in North America.
Richard Laermer | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment
Buzzing about others is one of those immutable truisms of the human condition: people gossip for the sake of gossiping. Today, gossip is the province of shouters on the Web.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
The United States of America is one of the only places on earth where all sense of a public space, let alone public duty, is off the table as a matter of faith. Privacy, ownership and profit are what we are about.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
The truth about Tibet is perhaps more nuanced than it has been presented by either side of the highly polarized debate.
John Feffer | Posted 02.06.2009 | World
We are both settler states -- the Puritans, who escaped oppression in the Old World only to mete out oppression in the New, unfolded their Zionist project in the 17th century with their "city built upon a hill" as the New Jerusalem.
Patt Morrison | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics