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The War Against Boys, how feminist complaints that girls were “losing their voice” in a male-oriented classroom have prompted the educational establishment to turn the schools upside down
Prior to Election Day, several poll workers had taken home voting machines for periods of a day to a week at a time without supervision or even consistent tracking procedures.
Sen. Joe Lieberman said Friday he would consider taking a look at a fellow lawmaker's proposal for a timeline for troop withdrawals.
As we race toward the November elections, Jon Kyl will argue that his political prowess and reputation are a benefit to Arizona. However, a closer examination of Jon Kyl’s character and voting patterns, which span his public service tenure, tells a m
A pipeline shuts down in Alaska. Equipment failures disrupt air travel in Los Angeles. Electricity runs short at a spy agency in Maryland. None of these recent events resulted from a natural disaster or terrorist attack, but they may as well have
Despite assuring Congress that career military lawyers are helping design new trials for accused terrorists, the Bush administration has limited their input on their key request, that any tribunals must give detainees the right to see the evidence ag
With the economy beginning to slow, the current expansion has a chance to become the first sustained period of economic growth since World War II that fails to offer a prolonged increase in real wages for most workers.
The prosecution of a NY businessman accused of enabling customers to receive satellite broadcasts of a Hezbollah television station is drawing fresh scrutiny over how far the government can go in claiming someone is aiding terrorist groups.
After his first look inside the US missile defense system, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld sounded a note of caution about expectations that interceptors poised in underground silos here would work in the event of a missile attack by North Korea.
The Rigsbys spent months collecting reams of internal State Farm reports, memos, e-mails and claims records. The sisters managed teams of State Farm adjusters, say the insurer defrauded policyholders by manipulating engineers' reports so that cla
Tim Carpenter, “What happened here today was important in bringing the grassroots and DNC together to work for election integrity.
Jim Bensman thought his suggestion during a public hearing was harmless enough: Instead of building a channel so migratory fish could go around a dam on the Mississippi River, just get rid of the dam. Instead, the environmental activist found hims
Muhammad Ismail, a 45-year-old naturalized citizen born in Pakistan, and his 18-year-old son, Jaber Ismail, who was born in the US, have not been charged with a crime. Would not be allowed back into the country unless they agreed to FBI interrogation
President Bush came to his parent's century-old summer home on the Maine coast for a little relaxation. He got all that, along with a boisterous reminder nearly on his bucolic doorstep of the unpopularity of his Iraq policies.
Analysis of the nation’s biggest mergers over the last 12 months indicates that the securities of 41% of the companies receiving buyout bids exhibited abnormal and suspicious trading in the days and weeks before those deals became public.
Novak provided a tantalizing clue: his primary source was a "senior administration official" who was "not a partisan gunslinger." Armitage was shaken. On the phone with Powell that morning, Armitage was "in deep distress. I**
There is increasing evidence that Israel instigated a disastrous war on Lebanon largely at the behest of the US. The Bush administration was set on crippling Hezbollah. Hezbollah defied US efforts to democratize the region on American terms. The popu
Skeletons found at an archeological site show that Aztecs captured, sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling with invading Spanish forces in 1520. The condition of skulls and bones from the Tecuaque site east of Mexico City offer
[Chickenhawks coming home to roost.] "I've been carrying the bucket when it comes to the war," Shays said in September. But facing an antiwar Democratic opponent in a tough midterm election race, Shays is starting to express reservation
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos lashed out at the White House for not having set up a long-promised meeting with executives of the Big Three automakers, which are being squeezed by high healthcare costs and shrinking market share.
The seized cargo, delivered by a C-17 military transport plane, included ejector seats apparently intended for Venezuelan combat jets, explosive charges and about 180 pounds of chicken that did not pass through sanitary inspection,
Chad ordered U.S. energy giant Chevron and Malaysia's Petronas to leave the country within 24 hours for failing to honor tax obligations, a move apparently aimed at increasing control over its oil output. "From tomorrow, the representatives
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a provocative, if symbolic, gesture by formally inaugurating a heavy-water reactor. The Iranians say the plant would be used for peaceful power generation. But heavy-water facilities are more useful for weapons beca
A battle over race that had divided Alabama's Democratic Party came to an end yesterday when the party's executive committee reinstated a white gay woman as its nominee to represent a historically black Birmingham district in the state legisl
Lawyers for Murat Kurnaz, a German native released after spending more than 4 years locked up at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said he was mistreated to the end by US military personnel, who kept him shackled and blindfolded until his flight home landed.
The agreements between Israel and the US regarding the use of the weapons are secret. It is not illegal under international law to use such weapons against enemy combatants. The US has used cluster bombs in Iraq, resulting in many civilian casualties
Almost 40 Labour Party members in the constituency of Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, have defected to the Liberal Democrats because she "sided with George Bush" over the Middle East crisis.
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Maybe White House-favored interrogation techniques would coax lawmakers to tell the truth about U.S. anti-terror policies. By James Bovard
"WARNING: If, like most Americans calling themselves Christian, you prefer the comfort of acquiescing to the official version of 9/11 and the imperial wars it facilitated, DROP THIS BOOK NOW."
