WASHINGTON — The Economist, Britain’s venerable weekly news magazine, has called on Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign. The magazine’s…

WASHINGTON — Those gruesome news reports from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony the other night remind me…

WASHINGTON — Darn, I missed the Oscars again. I adore gory spectacles. If cockfights were legal I would be there….

WASHINGTON — So we hear this week that President George W. Bush is taking delight in the spread of the…

WASHINGTON — I have it on the best of authority that Harvard State University’s President Lawrence H. Summers resigned only…

WASHINGTON — For weeks now civilized observers around the world have been astonished by the dispendious angers vented by indignant…

WASHINGTON — Contemplate this: A Danish newspaper in September publishes some cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Four months later Muslims,…

WASHINGTON — In the months after our invasion of Iraq — our liberation of Iraq — there was a neat…

Reuters reports that President Bush claims Bill Clinton is like a member of the Bush family. Apparently the animal-loving Bushes…

WASHINGTON — I cannot rid from my mind the name Alioto, Judge Samuel Alioto. That is the name of Judge…