By Pashtoon Atif
On Afghanistan's independence day in August, my friends in Kandahar were puzzled. Why was the government bothering to celebrate the holiday?...
By Meghan Daum
I'm not proud of this, but I sort of love Levi Johnston. I know he's an opportunistic buffoon. I know he's a grammatically challenged,...
By Matthew Continetti
Sarah Palin has a talent for reinvention. Since her first campaign in 1992, she's gone through a wardrobe full of political personas....
By Tim Rutten
The University of California system is one of America's greatest public institutions. There is virtually no significant branch of human...
By Michael Carey
The temperature was close to zero Monday as I left the house to buy Sarah Palin's memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life." The book was...
By Dan Schnur
Almost three years ago, in the glow of a decisive reelection victory, Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed himself a "post-partisan" leader...
By Marc B. Haefele
It still doesn't have a name. But this week, L.A. County will try to sell the University of California Board of Regents on a plan to...
By Jonah Goldberg
I get where President Obama and Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. are coming from. They think that if we change our way of life, the...
By Miriam Aroni Krinsky
It has been a year and a half since the Supreme Court ended the nationwide moratorium on lethal injections, finding that Kentucky's three-...
By Gregory Rodriguez
Six years ago, during a trip to the Middle East, I asked an Israeli playwright what his country's cinematic equivalent was to the American...
By Gary Schmitt
Arguably the two most important foreign policy speeches given by Barack Obama since becoming president are his June address in Cairo and...
By Sara Catania
Artist Peter Shelton didn't have anything terribly controversial in mind when he created "sixbeaststwomonkeys" -- that's "six beasts, two...
By Doyle McManus
Barack Obama is in danger of giving deliberation a bad name.
By Max Blumenthal
In a Republican Party hoping to rebound in 2010 on the strength of a newly energized and ideologically aroused conservative grass roots,...
By Efraim Zuroff
The envelope was postmarked Budapest, Aug. 25, 2004, and it arrived in my Jerusalem office about a week later. It contained more than a...
Sometimes cartoonists are clever, lighthearted cutups. Other times we labor over life-and-death matters, solemnly assessing senseless...
By Patt Morrison
To employ catchphrases from two Teutonic giants -- Heidi Klum and Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Lifetime TV's "Project Runway," which wraps up...
By Tim Rutten
When Neil Armstrong stepped on the lunar surface and announced, "We came in peace for all mankind," it marked a fundamental break with...
By Mary Jo McConahay
The world may not end two years from now, despite Internet predictions and this week's blockbuster disaster movie, "2012." On screen, the...
By Ann Louise Bardach
On July 27, 2006, Fidel Castro nearly died during emergency intestinal surgery to stem internal bleeding caused by chronic diverticulitis....
By Judith Miller and David Samuels
Both left- and right-wing accounts of the mass murder at Ft. Hood are haunted by the specter of "political correctness."
By Gordon M. Goldstein
As President Kennedy pondered the risks of accidental war in the nuclear age -- a nightmare he would confront head on in the Cuban missile...
By Eric S. Belsky
Here's a radical notion: Let's rethink the cult of homeownership in America.
By Tim Rutten
There is a profound difference between watchfulness and a witch hunt.
By Dennis V. Hickey
President Obama will have a lot on his agenda when he visits China this week as part of his four-nation Asia trip. He wants to strengthen...
By David S. Abraham
Ithought I knew the cost of combat. I recommended plans to spend billions of dollars in Afghanistan from my desk at the White House Office...
By Tom Hayden
Fifty-nine Americans died in October fighting to protect the corrupt Afghan electoral process that resulted in a second five-year term...
By Max Boot
Hamid Karzai begins another term as Afghanistan's president with a long to-do list. The Obama administration has made clear to him that he...
By Jonah Goldberg
Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan demonstrated many things when he allegedly committed treason in the war on terror. For starters, he showed --...
