I know I'm coming in late on this, but I gather that the right-wing blogosphere has been going bananas because President Barack Obama took his …
Read moreI've been neglecting the science segment of this blog, but today on Science 's online news service (ScienceNOW) I write about a paper report…
Read moreA waste of fossil fuels, a waste of human energy, and quite frankly, a scam on those people who can afford gardeners because these guys spend all the…
Read moreDavid Rohde, who while at the Christian Science Monitor was one of the first journalists to expose the Serb massacre of 8000 Muslim men at Srebrenic…
Read moreI'm just as willing as anyone to believe that the Iranian election was rigged; and of course I condemn the brutal suppression of demonstrators in…
Read moreAdy Barkan has a particularly clear and cogent commentary on Slate , posted Friday, about the possible consequences of Judge Jeffrey White's rul…
Read moreThe New York Times nails President Obama and his Justice Department in an editorial today entitled "A Bad Call on Gay Rights." At issue i…
Read moreCould it be that all the blather about a nuclear-armed Iran is just Israeli leaders' way of distracting us from the real matter at hand, the peac…
Read moreThe archaeology team working at 9500 year old Neolithic Çatalhöyük, one of the largest early farming sites ever investigated, has shown up and begun …
Read moreWhy? The story of a Los Angeles woman who is facing a 58% increase in her insurance premium from Blue Shield, related by David Lazarus in today'…
Read moreBack in 2006, when Hillary Clinton was preparing to run for re-election as a U.S. Senator from New York, she was challenged in the Democratic Party p…
Read moreA video by Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana made in Jerusalem several days ago, on the eve of President Obama's visit to Cairo. Blumenthal explains…
Read moreThe Times ' Public Editor, Clark Hoyt, sets the record straight today (too late, as usual) about a May 21 story reporting on a Pentagon report c…
Read moreBarack Obama said many important and interesting things in his Cairo speech today, and here is one comment I especially appreciated: ... it is import…
Read moreFor decades, successive U.S. presidents and governments have provided political cover for Israel's real intentions: Grab as much Palestinian land…
Read moreThe vow by proponents of gay marriage in California to put the measure on the ballot again next year and try to overturn Proposition 8 is laudable, b…
Read moreThe California Supreme Court, by upholding the Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage but allowing the 18,000 people married before its passage to stay ma…
Read moreMany of you have probably seen the front page story in today's New York Times , "Dear Donna: A Pinup So Swell She Kept G.I. Mail," abo…
Read moreI was traveling between Colorado Springs and West Hollywood yesterday so did not have a chance to blog about a front page story in Thursday's New…
Read moreLast week I previewed my Science story about the $10 million lawsuit against Jared Diamond and the New Yorker by two men from Papua New Guinea who …
Read moreCongressional Democrats have introduced a bill that would give many Americans seven--count them, 7--paid sick days every year, according to today…
Read moreMany readers of this blog will have by now read the front page story in today's New York Times about the many civilian casualties caused by U.S…
Read moreThat's the title of my three-page News Focus in this week's issue of Science , about the lawsuit filed last month by two men from Papua New G…
Read moreTomorrow, Monday May 11, I will be one of the keynote speakers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Ninth Annual Colloquium on Teaching and …
Read moreNot really, drug enforcement buddies! Nor am I staying at the place depicted in the photo, the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. But nevertheless …
Read moreMy blogging has been intermittent the past week because I was between Paris, Boston, and Santa Cruz, California, where I am now. At least once each y…
Read moreNew York Times columnist Roger Cohen has really been ripping into the obfuscations of Israeli leaders lately, and he does it again today with a ver…
Read moreIt's too late to impeach Cheney, but why is he still walking the streets? I don't know about where you live, but here in Massachussetts the s…
Read moreThe Washington Post carries an interesting, albeit ultimately unsatisfying, article about torture memo author Jay Bybee's apparent private reg…
Read moreI'm back in Beantown for several days, before heading to the West Coast for the month of May. So look for more frequent comments on the American …
Read moreA cast of Homo floresiensis is on display during a conference on the diminutive species at Stony Brook University entitled “Hobbits in the Haystack…
Read moreDuring the first 24 hour news cycle on allegations that Representative Jane Harman of California was trading favors with the Israel lobby over the c…
Read more"We can't turn the page until we first read the page" --Senate Judiciary Commitee chair Patrick Leahy . The New York Times reports toda…
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