Politics

Remembering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan alongside 9/11, tacitly justifying those conflicts, perverts our history.

By Stanley Kutler President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, according to a New York Times report last week, admittedly accepts large cash payments from the Iranian...

By Stanley Kutler Mercifully, the midterm election cycle is nearing its end. Both parties, we learn, are planning their "postmortem assessments." The Daily Beast's...

By Stanley Kutler "It is time to turn the page," President Barack Obama said as he announced the "end" of combat operations in Iraq. Meanwhile,...

Barack Obama's forthcoming Supreme Court nomination has unleashed the familiar flood of commentary, much of it revolving around the political context, and hence much of...

Fourteen state Attorneys General have indicated their determination to challenge the recently-enacted health care legislation on the grounds that their states have pre-empted federal...

Gingrich and his fellow Republican presidential wannabes know exactly what their followers mean when they chant, "Take back our country." They stir a dangerous pot of racism and hatred.

ABC evening news offered us the ultimately silly and misplaced story of John Roberts' remarks about Obama's criticism of his Court's recent ruling. Once again, historical memory is sacrificed to the interests of a "good story."

Toyota's reported sins have given us the scandal du jour, but typically, the media zips past the basic problem. Toyota's safety irregularities pointedly illustrate...

Politics are paralyzed. The minority party is motivated by a desire to have the president of the United States fail, while the squishy majority is...

Alas! Candidate Obama, the bold, dynamic advocate for change, has morphed into President Obama, a terribly cautious man, too eager to please and compromise.

The AmTrust debacle -- the FDIC had dutifully guaranteed the bank's deposits at a cost of more than $2 billion -- vividly reflects Obama's steadfast commitment to the status quo.