Totalizing, programmatic hatreds are what Freud would have called thanatopsic obssessions -- they are driven by a fear of one's own extinction.

There are two major conditions affecting America today, conditions from which flow much else which troubles the nation. First, large, multi-national...

To sum up, the long pent-up grievances of the Arab/Muslim world are exploding not just in the faces of local dictators such as Mubarak of Egypt but, perhaps more importantly, against their neocolonial/imperial patrons abroad.

In between the Declaration of Independence and George Washington's inauguration, there were 16 (or perhaps 13, or maybe just eight) men who were called "president".

Whether it's a correctly called a movement, a backlash or political theater, state declarations of their rights -- or in some cases denunciations of f...

Without a draft, and without a war tax, 99.9% of Americans do not have to sacrifice at all to continue the war. It is too easy for war to become, for 99.9% of us, more like a video game played out on television.

I was attacked for an earlier post as un-American for acknowledging Canada's Thanksgiving celebration and for not celebrating America's. Rest assured! I fully intend to celebrate next month as well.

Without a microscopic examination of the seething cauldron of Iraqi partisan politics, it's safe to say that Maliki knows which way the wind is blowing. The Iraqi people want to know -- "when is the U.S. leaving?"

Granting immunity to telephone companies illegally spying on Americans is far worse than business-as-usual, which is that corporations win.

Although opinion polls now show that most Americans feel the U.S. made a mistake sending troops to Iraq, there's no agreement on what exactly to do ab...