The best thing you can say about Vice President Dick Cheney's recent "hunting incident" is that, to the relief of members of his family, Cheney didn't shoot himself in the foot. Unfortunately, you cannot say the same thing about the policies that officials...
One of the best television commercials I have seen in a while comes from Sprint promoting its "Fair & Flexible Plan" for cell phones. We see a pompous business executive discussing the Sprint plan and then telling his assistant that joining the plan is his way of...
In a new film, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, comedian Albert Brooks is dispatched to South Asia by humorless Bush administration officials to look for, well, comedy in the Muslim world. Trying to cope with the depressing reality of a post-Sept. 11 world in...
I was watching U.S. President George W. Bush during a live televised press conference as he was trying to give his interpretation of the victory of the radical Hamas movement in the Palestinian elections. And I was feeling kind of embarrassed for my president as he...
Americans overwhelmingly lack confidence that Iraq will have a stable government in place within the next year, and more than half say that the war has not been worth its cost, according to a recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. Fewer than one in five, or about 19...
If you've been listening to the recent "democracy is the way to go" sermons by President George W. Bush and his advisers, you'll have to conclude that embracing "democracy" – a concept that is open to different interpretations – is the...
Washington's Middle East project received another blow last week after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a severe stroke. It is unlikely that the former Israeli general will be able to return to active political life. This means that U.S. President George...
I've been embarrassed a few times in the past with my predictions (for example, that it was going to be U.S. President John Kerry in 2004), but I've also been right on a few occasions (for example, my book, Quagmire: America in the Middle East, was published in 1992)....
For several months – actually, since the U.S. invasion of Iraq – neoconservative propagandists have been trying to counter-spin the depressing reality in Mesopotamia that we've been watching on television by celebrating several "tipping points"...
Dreams "are chief nourishers in life's feast," wrote Shakespeare in Macbeth. Indeed, while dreams offer a private means to explore inner reality and to gain unique, undeniable, personal experiences, psychologists also recognize that there is overwhelming...
