When Tim Russert Bowed to Power

Moazzam Sheikh Interview

My guest today is Moazzam Sheikh, the author of “The Idol Lover and Other Stories from Pakistan.”

Art Professor in the Clear

It began the day Kurtz’s wife died of a heart attack on May 11, 2004. When the police and paramedics came, they found some supplies of Kurtz’s they thought were suspicious. He was using some bacteria cultures for an exhibit demonstrating the dangers of biotechnology.

I Can’t Like Bobby Jindal

His ultra-conservative outlook is not limited to faith-related issues. He is adamantly pro-gun, for instance, and favors a constitutional amendment to ban flag-burning.

A Discordant Note on Tim Russert

Tim Russert, by all accounts I’ve heard, including from people on the progressive side who knew him well, was a decent guy.

No Amnesty for Lawbreaking Telecoms

Congress may be on the verge of giving phone companies retroactive immunity from lawsuits over their role in helping Bush’s warrantless domestic wiretapping program.

McCain's Big Challenge

So bad was John McCain's speech on Tuesday night, even the pundits on Fox conceded that Obama sounded a lot better, and that McCain would surely "improve," as Fred Barnes put it.

Solving the global food crisis starts with women’s rights

Solving the food crisis means empowering women.

This week, world leaders are meeting in Rome to devise new strategies for world agriculture. They ought to be promoting women’s rights.

Free Speech and the Right of Congress to Declare the Objects of the War

Since the declaration of war the triumphant war press has pursued those Senators and Representations who voted against war with malicious falsehood and recklessly libelous attacks, going to the extreme limit of charging them with treason against their country.