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This comfortable college town is defined as much by its eclecticism as its traditional Midwestern quintessence.

The day before MSNBC announced that it was pulling the plug on Phil Donahue’s nightly show, the man who pretty much invented talk TV was interviewing actress and author Rosie O’Donnell.

The thirteen self-declared “citizen weapons inspectors” marching down a rain-swept road just outside Baltimore knew they weren’t going to be allowed inside the US military’s Aberdeen Proving

At some point or another in their careers, just about every governor in the union faces some sort of recall effort.

Below is a listing of key UN missions, embassies and consulates for countries that the Bush Administration is leaning heavily on to secure a UN resolution for war.

Though he did not get much credit for it, one of Harvey Pitt’s last acts as SEC chairman was to hand a tremendous victory over the mutual-fund industry to the AFL-CIO.

In early February, the Center for Public Integrity disclosed a leaked draft of the Bush Administration’s next round in the war on terrorism–the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (DSEA).

It’s a fascinating scheme, “this very ambitious and aggressive embed plan,” as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Bryan Whitman calls it.

Just as his father did, George W. Bush is offering generous packages of aid and arms to nations that join his drive for war against Iraq.

Brushing aside the world’s largest antiwar demonstrations ever, the United States, Britain and Spain have introduced a new United Nations Security Council resolution that would in their view au

So the truth is out: George W. Bush lied when he claimed to be worried about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction.

It is good news that Total Information Awareness has been blocked, at least for the moment.

Who’s the hack? I nominate The New Yorker‘s Jeffrey Goldberg. He’s the new Remington, though without the artistic talent.

Get allies? That’s not hard to do.
We’ll simply go and buy a few.

As the Earth’s population surges toward the 7 billion mark, the following twist on an old maxim perhaps best applies: A single birth is a joyous occasion. A billion births is a tragedy.

Only the joy of capitalist expectation could move a pre-Reagan-born American to utter the line “civil rights is dead,” let alone write a book devoted to that proposition.

Say what you will about Michael Lind, at least he’s never predictable. That is, of course, unless your prediction is that he’s once again trying to find a way to disagree with everyone else. <