My father's warning to me 9 years ago, faced with my first US election as a voter, has come true today: you're voting for yourself, and your father and your family, and your country. President...
This is a special edition of this column. Yesterday, in broad daylight, in the center of Moscow, a human rights lawyer and a journalist were gunned down. Lawyer Stanislav Markelov was most famous for...
In Canada, we have socialized medicine, same gender marriage is legal, and though we have a disparity between rich and poor it does not come close to the separation in the United States. Our rate of...
St. Trinians dvd Natalie Dylan might have just blended into the college community as another woman’s study major had she not sought a unique way to pay her tuition. Natalie is offering her...
Stephan Faris is the author of Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley, a new book that takes a look at the way that climate change is...
There’s a funky glass chandelier hanging above my dining room table. It’s big, it’s bold, and – in my humble opinion, at least – it’s beautiful. We’ve had it for years, so the regular...
Eric Holder answered the important questions right in his confirmation hearing. In his sworn testimony, under questioning from Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, Holder stated unequivocally...
For those of you just in from outer space, Israeli air strikes began against Hamas, a militant Islamist group, in the Gaza Strip on December 27 in response, the Israelis say, to the relentless but...
In the United States, there are more black men in prison than there are in college. There are racists that would attribute this phenomenon to the supposed "natural criminal instinct" of black...
Picture courtesy of Amanda Jaffe. When the presidential primaries started, Barack Obama was already something of a celebrity. And from the beginning, his campaign's posters and Web site were...
