For a number of years now, the so-called “War on Christmas” has been a favorite meme of the Christian Right in the United States. As the title of Fox commentator John Gibson's book goes,we should...
Today is Mother’s Day and restaurants and florist shops are on overdrive, trying to keep up with the consumer-driven holiday we have created to celebrate motherhood. In advertising, I have seen...
Born in Yemen, Victoria Clark was an Observer journalist in post-Communist Romania and in ex-Yugoslavia during Croat and Bosnian wars. From 1990-1996, Clark was stationed in Moscow. Her latest book...
Within forty-eight hours we might have a picture of what the next five years will look like in the UK. Might. It could well be that we don’t even know how the UK electoral map has finally turned...
The personal narrative is something I have avoid, because the naked honesty also leaves one extremely vulnerable to attack. Living in a marginalized body is difficult enough without showing one’s...
Germany's relationship with Israel has emerged as a result of historical processes and reactions against World War II. Through the decades, that relationship has deepened, broadened, and grown to...
Michelle Obama is everywhere these days, but one place you won’t find her is the Class of 1985 - 25th Reunion celebration at Princeton University. Obama, who graduated cum laude from Princeton in...
Early on in Marguerite Yourcenar’s “Memoirs of Hadrian” the Emperor Hadrian, now 60, muses, “This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend,...
The poor Gulf Coast. So abused, so neglected, so forgotten. The oil spill currently afflicting the Louisiana coast has received a great deal of attention. This media focus happens all too rarely in...
The Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro’s annual glam-fest on the Hudson, is glitzy and obnoxious and very L.A. – which is exactly why I enjoy covering it. It’s like traveling to the West...
