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Nearly everyone -- except Karl Rove, who has been too busy applauding -- has remarked how Ralph Nader has finally jumped off the deep end wi...

It's been nearly nine years, but the terrorist attack on Oklahoma City in 1995 has never really left us. Terry Nichols faces his second ...

If the Catholic League had its way, we'd probably soon see a papal initiative to allow for canonization while a person is still living: ...

Mel Gibson has always had a flair for making action-driven revenge melodramas. Now, he's made the ultimate entry in the genre with The P...

Following up on the situation in Ann Arbor, where anti-abortion thugs went to work to prevent a former state legislator from giving a talk ...

My favorite story of the day: Will Eisner Draws a Rebuttal I've always enjoyed Eisner's work a great deal, especially The Spi...

If you want a textbook example of the right way to handle would-be intimidators, check out what went down this week in Ann Arbor, Michigan: ...

Atrios mentions the just-announced criminal fraud investigation into Halliburton by none other than the Pentagon Inspector General's o...

Just what "civil unrest" does Arnold Schwarzenegger believe will be unleashed if San Francisco does not stop issuing marriage lic...

We've known for some time that the Washington Times not only has betrayed Americans and concretely harmed the war on terrorism , all fo...

What do the Ten Commandments, gay marriage and Janet Jackson all have in common? All three are symbols, for the religious right, of ...

By way of corroborating the analysis of my previous post, here are some noteworthy outtakes from Hutton Gibson's recent interview with...

Just in time for Wednesday's release of The Passion of the Christ, who should hit the headlines again but Hutton Gibson, father of Mel:...

I caught Eric Alterman's talk at Seattle's Town Hall on Tuesday night and got him to sign my copy of his new book afterward. He didn...

Hot on the heels of WMD and AWOL comes the latest body blow to George W. Bush's credibility -- namely, his administration's predicti...