There is an old Robin Williams gag about an unarmed English bobby who shouts at a fleeing criminal: “Stop! Or I’ll say stop again!” That is the Democratic ...

A whole history of art history writing could profitably be written concerning the changing uses of illustrations. When an art writer does not use ...

Last week’s papers were so bad, I decided to go cold turkey.  It wasn’t because of the Times’ dutiful repetition of Israel’s mendacious claim that Anas-al-Sharif, murdered by the IDF along with three ...

The Trump administration and Republican governors have a plan for the nation’s public education system. They call it school choice, but their real goal is ...

Preliminary results of first-round voting for president of Bolivia on August 17 determined that centrist Rodrigo Paz, with 32.1% of the vote, and ...

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” – Karl Marx “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” – Georg Wilhelm ...

The US government is pay-to-play – and drug lobbyists are buying a lot of playing time. Pharmaceutical companies claim that the government shouldn’t ...

I am living in a world that no longer exists.  I once lived in a vital world whose only limit was no-limit, “free frame of reference,” as the Haight ...

In 1969, after nearly 14 years of constant gigging in small blues clubs and cutting scorching singles for obscure labels, songs that received limited ...

Party in the USA. Decades from now, when people wonder what it was like to be alive during the years when our government was funding and arming Israel as ...

I flew from Barcelona to Cairo via Milan to join the sizable Swiss delegation taking part in the Global March on Gaza. On the plane, I spotted other unmistakable activists linking up with the Spanish ...

Amongst the worst things I have been exposed to as a Doctor of International Conflict Management is the abuse of children. I am not so naïve as to have ...