Energy is ugly. Some forms more so than others, as nuclear near-meltdowns in Japan, the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and deaths in a West Virginia coal mine explosion have driven home in the last year.
Long before Richard Nixon and Watergate, the nation suffers through another long political nightmare--the election of 1876.
It's hard to win a presidential debate when you look like Rudolf Hess. That's probably why Richard Nixon did much better against John F. Kennedy, among those who listened on the radio.
We cannot help but feel that Roosevelt's Cabinet will be progressive, forward-looking and able to grapple intelligently with the crisis.
The trial for the murder of undocumented immigrant Francisco Javier Domínguez stripped him of his humanity. The retrial must not make the same mistake.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is suing Kellogg and Viacom for using cartoon characters to brainwash kids into consuming mass amounts of junk food.
Reviews of Why We Fight, Looking for
Comedy in the Muslim World and Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull
Story.
Will Dick Cheney be indicted for past Halliburton abuses?
How to "privatize" a country and make millions.
Even before US troops arrived in Baghdad, looting broke out--in
Washington.


