Author: Steven D

Yes, you read my title correctly. Today’s New York Times includes an op-ed piece by Benny Morris, a Professor of Middle Eastern history at Ben Gurion University. He claims Israel will most certainly attack Iran within the...

Click here to see whether your locale is suffering from either abnormally dry conditions, moderate drought, severe drought, extreme drought or exceptional drought. For those of you in Texas, there’s a big old patch of...

Ever wonder why atrocities happen in wartime? Why genocide can occur among populations of supposedly civilized, cultured societies of “good people.” Why the torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib was perpetrated by a group...

Imagine if you will a thought crossing George Bush’s brain (it’s a hypothetical so please suspend your disbelief) regarding the issue of global climate change. I imagine it might go something like this: Nope, no...

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (one level below the Supreme Court) has just ruled that Bush was granted the unlimited power by Congress to detain indefinitely anyone in the United States (you, me, your teenage son or...