Op-Ed

President Barack Obama meets with Congressional leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington about raising the national debt limit on July 13, 2011. From left: …

Protesters demonstrate against provisions of Governor Walker's Budget Repair Bill, February 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. The bill all but eliminated collective bargaining for public unions in the state. The labor …

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) speaks during a press conference with other House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 19, 2011. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The …

OK, Barack Obama has not exactly turned out to be Mount Rushmore material, but — good God! — the petulant pettiness of right-wing Republican congressional leaders has turned them …

Comparing the brain sizes of migratory birds and US presidents may not help explain this one. Birds have been avoiding Afghanistan for some years now. Afghans with …

(Photo: What What) If you think deficit-reduction is being driven by John Boehner or Harry Reid, think again. The biggest driver right now is Standard & Poor's. …

Washington - The monster who slaughtered at least 76 innocent victims in Norway was animated by the same blend of paranoia, xenophobia and alienation that fuels anti-Muslim sentiment in …

The aestheticization of shock, difference and glamour misappropriates social consciousness.

The law enforcement entities dealing with the appalling massacre in and around Oslo last Friday have been understandably preoccupied with the question, did the perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, act …

Scandinavians have a dual reputation for tolerance and homogeneity: a population of pale, polite people who speak English perfectly. But that's your grandfather's Scandinavia. Over the last several decades, …