Op-Ed

Anyone who knows me will be shocked to hear that I may agree with Rick Santorum on something. But while he was in the midst of ranting against radical …

Two recent reports appearing on the same day last week in The New York Times and The Washington Post illustrate U.S. intentions in Iraq. What they reveal is that …

The world outside my writing room window is diamond bright. Gleaming black ravens hop and posture around the corn chips and unshelled peanuts I’ve scattered for their breakfast. Conan, …

Movie poster for “Act of Valor”. (Image: Relativity Media) Since 1986's “Top Gun” rekindled the Pentagon-Hollywood relationship from its post-Vietnam doldrums, the collusion between the military and …

From left: Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich before taking part in a Republican presidential …

Jeb Bush, former Florida governor, walks through the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., April 26, 2011. (Photo: Jenn Ackerman / The New York Times) Rumors and …

In this great meritocracy of ours, those of us who’ve made it through college are encouraged to feel like we’re something special. And it’s no doubt true that a …

(Photo: ~*Leah*~ / Flickr) In advance, I apologize to my grown kids for what might be, for them, an embarrassing discussion about their mother's sex life and …

(Image: Lance Page / Truthout; Adapted: hans van den berg, The U.S. Army) One would think that, by now, America would have made the connection between war …

The concept of endless economic growth, accepted as sacrosanct by both U.S. mainstream political parties, and internalized as the dominant mode of mind by the general population of the …