My apologies for the lack of a column – and please don’t ask. I’m sure I’ll recover…. At any rate, I thought I’d revive an old Antiwar.com tradition: on those days where I was absent due to circumstances apparently beyond my control, we used to feature an "oldie...

There is a fascinating study just waiting to be written on the topic of Bosnia's political jokes, evolved over the centuries to express opinions of governments that didn't much care for freedom of speech. One such joke tells of a man who, after the Bosnian War,...

The rumbling drone of a fleet of U.S. helicopters carrying security and administrative personnel could be heard long before the eight choppers came into view over the Ramallah horizon on their way to the Palestinian Authority  (PA) presidential compound in the West...

In 1798, when John Adams was president of the United States, the feds enacted four pieces of legislation called the Alien and Sedition Acts. One of these laws made it a federal crime to publish any false, scandalous or malicious writing -- even if true -- about the...