An international shouting match is underway over the fate of the city everyone loves but no one wants to live…
Continue reading →Bring Out Your Dead (to Vote)
An Irishman’s home is his coffin. – James Joyce, Ulysses The dead use a graveyard forever. – Nathan Englander, The…
Continue reading →The French Problem
Is this a Jewish joke or a Gypsy joke? What do you get when a Jew and a Gypsy go…
Continue reading →Thank God for Koran Burnings
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and…
Continue reading →Bill Polk’s Afghan Policies: Well Worth Implementing
When a respected eighty-one year old scholar who has known Afghanistan since 1962 returns there in search of a way…
Continue reading →Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, and Privatized War
Sixty-six years ago this month, the American and Free French forces landed in southern France to liberate this half of…
Continue reading →Counterpoint: Land and Sovereignty
In the elegant and incisive style that characterizes all of his writing, James Carroll set out in these pages (“The…
Continue reading →Who Killed Kurdish Journalist Sardasht Osman?
This is no time to be a journalist, especially if you happen to be a Kurd. Under assault from Turkey…
Continue reading →Not Another War on Lebanon
My old friend Norman Finkelstein has just written a foreword to a new edition of his first-rate book on the…
Continue reading →Under Siege: On Emma Williams
In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son Archie’s seventh birthday party failed…
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