It's too patently Rovian not to consider it. If anyone has heard any plausible explanation as to why Georgia decided to provoke the Russian bear during the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games, please let me know. I am sure that most Americans were too mesmerized by the Olympic events to pay any...

Remind me, who won the Cold War? "The New American Century" that according to the neocons was supposed to follow the dissolution of the Soviet Union, leaving us in a unipolar world with the U.S. as the solitary "super power" seems to have ended prematurely - about 90 years early....

Personally, I am excited about the holiday weekend, as I will be visiting some good friends in Indianapolis and attending the Indy 500 for the first time. (Go Danica!) But I will miss being with Doc and going to the cemetery, like we usually do. I have learned from Doc that Memorial Day is not about...

On the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, many people, especially politicians, have felt obliged to look back at the Reverend through the gauzy fabric of his popular image, cultivated since that time by countless elementary school lessons taught in white suburbia. Most years, the...

I have been putting off writing about Iraq, but my guilt has been assuaged by the election, and the immediacy of that event. Anyone who knows me or has read my letters to various editors going back to 2001 knows that I was part of the stillborn movement that tried to stop the War on Iraq (and I use that...