"What do the next two years hold?” I asked in my column in The Nation, right after the November 2 elections. “Already there are desperate…
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THE SAD NEWS reached us Sunday that Carroll Pratt had suffered a terrible fall at his Philo home, injuring himself so severely he had to…
The sun rises this week on a new American landscape, the same way it rose on a new American landscape almost exactly two years ago.…
When did the American left become such sissies? We are shocked, shocked! We throw up our hands in horror, cowering behind prissy words like “divisive”…
Dear President Obama, It seems that the theme emanating from the White House is “Eat, Pray, Be Disappointed.” And yet, whenever I do feel disappointed,…
The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, so the Pentagon announced this week. The 40,000 personnel from 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd…
One of Barack Obama’s campaign slogans as he ran for President two years ago was, “The change we need.” Unfortunately, for those in the Federal…
The Obama Administration’s treatment of its current majority ownership of bailed out General Motors and its standoffishness toward the pioneering but troubled ShoreBank, a community…
This economy has a destination for sure, but it's not in the direction where all eyes are trained in moist hopefulness: that glimmering horizon of…
The hope of the brave soldier who sent 92,000 secret US documents to Wikileaks was that their disclosure would prompt public revulsion and increasing political…
The war in Afghanistan is nearly nine years old — the longest in American history. After the US quickly toppled the Taliban regime in October…