What in the world is George W. Bush doing in Africa? Rarely has a world leader seemed more lost, more ill at ease than the recent portrayal of the incumbent US president strolling around in… Full Transcript
With a pair of cases announced days before their summer retirement, Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, the US Supreme Court decided the constitutionality of affirmative action, at least for the next generation. The… Full Transcript
The great French thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville, once said, “In politics, a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.” The American people, through the corporate media, have been exposed to an unprecedented… Full Transcript
If there has been any constant in the last several millennia, besides change, there’s been the raging appetite of empires to remake the world in their various images. All of them, the Roman, the Ottoman,… Full Transcript
To be young, gifted and Simone. About Nina. The British poet Shelley once said, “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” When the historical record of the 20th century is finally written,… Full Transcript
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