WE WAITED a long time; went back several times. The Cherry Blossom festival was declared at its peak last week, yet just this past Sunday very few trees had actually bloomed. Tight blossoms seemed to simply stare back at the crowd. Then came the heat on Tuesday. The rest you can see for yourself. As [...]
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Smithsonian Magazine Excavates Thomas Jefferson’s Darkness
THE TEA Party era and uneducated fictionalists like Sean Hannity enjoy rewriting American history and hoisting on our founders qualities they don’t deserve. As a strong admirer of Jefferson’s mind and engineering genius, just visit Monticello some time, his evil racism was obviously a product of the era, but it is no less diabolical. The [...]
Obama-Biden Versus Romney-Ryan Now Four-Way Brawl
Forgive me, but I’m not prepared to join this walk down Great Umbrage Street just yet. Yes, it’s ugly out there. But is this worse than four years ago, when Obama was accused by the GOP vice presidential nominee of “palling around with terrorists”? Or eight years ago, when Democratic nominee John Kerry was accused [...]
The Radically Religious Politics of Rick Santorum
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor [...]
Celebrating Griswold v. Connecticut
June 7th, 2011 marks the 45th anniversary of the landmark 1965 Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut, which legalized family planning and the right to individual privacy in family planning decisions. But nearly 50 years later, women in the United States can hardly find cause for celebration, because we are engaged in a full-on battle [...]
Peter Beinert’s Right, It’s The End Of An Empire
Some commentators love the Libya war; others hate it. But most agree that it’s profoundly unnatural that we were pushed into it by… France. Welcome to the post-American world. In the age we’re entering, most of the time, the choice will no longer be between humanitarian interventions controlled by the United States and humanitarian interventions [...]
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