Summer of the Superhero Summer of the Superhero
Superhero-themed films are dominating the summer box office. Is it just about the bottom line or our national longing for genuine heroism?
Jul 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Adam Howard
Recount: A Nightmare Revisited Recount: A Nightmare Revisited
HBO's Recount will bring back bad memories, which is precisely why you should see it.
May 29, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Adam Howard
McClellan’s Off the “Accomplished” Team McClellan’s Off the “Accomplished” Team
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could not resist adding a little irony to the session where it was announced that he was being fired -- er, stepping down -- as the chie...
Apr 19, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Time for a Senate Investigation Time for a Senate Investigation
Following the recent testimony by Dick Cheney's former chief of staff that both President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actively involved in scheming to discredit former Amba...
Apr 18, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Our True Colors Our True Colors
In the Washington Post Monday, pollster Richard Morin writes about how George Bush's plummeting poll numbers have rendered the red-blue political map close-to-obsolete. "Stat...
Apr 18, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
And Now Oprah And Now Oprah
Last week I wrote about the efforts of Representative Sherrod Brown and others to change a system in which the federal minimum wage has been frozen for eight years at $5.15 an hour...
Apr 14, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr: 1924-2006 Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr: 1924-2006
"Clearly the trick in life is to die young as late as possible," wrote Reverend William Sloane Coffin in his last book, Credo. Bill Coffin, as his friends knew him, was o...
Apr 13, 2006 / Lived History / Adam Howard
Kerry Breaks Ranks Kerry Breaks Ranks
With his op-ed piece in the New York Times on Wednesday; his remarks on Meet the Press this past Sunday; and his e-mail and online petition calling for a withdrawal from Iraq today...
Apr 11, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Reconstruction Corruption Watch IV Reconstruction Corruption Watch IV
First, the company's own employee blows the whistle on its failure to use water purification equipment. And now a physician serving in Iraq ties an outbreak of bacterial infection...
Apr 10, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Italy Votes for Withdrawal Italy Votes for Withdrawal
George Bush's second closest comrade in the neoconservative "coalition of the willing" occupiers of Iraq has been swept from power. And that means that Italy will soon wi...
Apr 10, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard