Author: Geov Parrish

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been 78 today. He has been dead for 39 years, as long as he was alive. As his living memory fades, replaced by a feel-good “I have a dream” whitewash that ignores much of what he stood for...

Last Sunday, King Abdullah of Jordan, a man in the thick of Middle Eastern politics since his birth, appeared on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, saying, bluntly, “We could possibly imagine going into 2007 and having...

At five in the morning (Eastern Time) on the morning after the election, here’s what Election ’06 looks like: * The polls leading up to Election Day were mostly pretty accurate. * Despite reports of widespread problems with...

With the American media and politicos obsessed this week about the election, it was hard to avoid the topic of Iraq — though many Democratic officeholders and candidates still, bizarrely, try. But it was on everyone’s...

The aide (a senior advisor to President Bush) said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernable...