Music is my religion. I worship at many different churches; I'm a raging polytheist. I hit three different services this past week and each was blissful in its own way, a reminder to step away from...
Social media isn't going away anytime soon. Facebook and Twitter, blogging and the latest Google app are here to stay, it seems. But aside from giving us new ways to socialize, can these new...
I made the Hunter S. Thompson joke as we circled the Strip in the airport shuttle. If not for the connection to the Good Doctor, Las Vegas would seem an incongruous place for a left-leaning...
Somewhere in London it stopped seeming like a coincidence anymore and started to feel like something I should pay attention to. “China Girl” haunted my steps from my arrival. It showed up on...
When Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union and Barack Obama's most frequent guest at the White House, announced last week that he was stepping down, it sent ripples...
During Vietnam, we in the U.S. saw the war. We saw photographs come back that froze scenes of horror in front of our eyes. During current wars, though, we have television cameras and satellites and...
The most disturbing thing about reading Rick Perlstein's Nixonland is how little has changed. Even the names of the players themselves--some are still around, like Charlie Rangel, Donald Rumsfeld,...
Ted Kennedy wasn't there to see it. Instead, it was Democrats' loss of his seat that sent the Senate's health care bill through the House of Representatives mostly unchanged yesterday, causing, among...
As food consciousness hits Americans—and wealthy Global Northerners everywhere—it's not just cooking that has seen a resurgence. Farming is experiencing a new cachet that it hasn't seen in ages....
Come back home to the refinery/Hiring man says, "Son if it was up to me"/I go down to see the V.A. man/He said "Son don't you understand" FOX News host Glenn Beck has set himself up as a sort of...
