Month: December 2006

We’ve been enjoying the “worst president ever” discussions, here and elsewhere. Anyone want to talk about the good ones? Here’s a list I hope will start discussion. Without trying to rank them, I broke...

One of the things that immigrant rights groups such as the Border Action Network, Border Network for Human Rights, Derechos Humanos, Humane Borders and other organizations are concerned with is the issue of family unification....

I am in the famous Mystic Pizza in Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, where a young, unformed Julia Roberts grins from a fading movie poster.  Out the window, the late November sky gathers cold, grey and moist, wanting to snow....

Lost in the whole disgrace that is the “War on Terror™” as well as the debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan (and the saber rattling with Iran, North Korea and just about everyone else that looks at Dear Leader funny) is the...

After 9/11 the Bush administration decided to ‘take the gloves off’ and authorized the CIA to get medieval on suspected terrorists. Here’s Mark Danner: As you know, very shortly after 9/11, the then-White House...