| Nov 27, 2013 | Environment / HealthEarth to climate change deniers: The vast majority of Americans are worried enough about global warming to want our government to help stop this scourge. This good news for people who believe science should drive our climate policy comes from a series of surveys...
| Aug 28, 2013 | Peace / SecurityThe year 2000 marked not merely the end of a century but the end of a millennium, a thousand years of history. The media’s desire to fill empty space with naming “the Person of the Millennium” became all the rage. George Will, the unfailingly smug...
| Aug 7, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyThere I was, sitting at my desk and looking out of the window — you know, writing — when my wife came in and plopped down a newspaper article in front of me. “Read that,” she said with a cruel twinkle in her eye. It was an article on Detroit by George...
| Jul 24, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyYou’ve probably heard that America has millions of undocumented immigrants. Maybe one of them lives next door to you. Or there’s one lurking on your roof. Or another lying nearby on the beach. My kids go to school with undocumented immigrants. They play on...
| Jun 11, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyIf you see things that really are not there, are you losing it? Maybe not. Maybe the ones who put the non-existent things there for you to see are to blame. Recently, this surrealistic phenomenon of unreal “thereness” appeared in Seaside Heights, New...
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