In a few weeks - it might be as soon as several days - I will become a father. Undoubtedly this will be the happiest moment of my life. Learning that my wife was pregnant, watching her tummy grow, seeing...

It is worth remembering that this was a war launched in the name of security. Of course, to those in possession of their critical faculties the claim was always risible. Even the Central Intelligence Agency...

With lies and distortions a daily staple of George W. Bush administration pronouncements, it's little wonder the phenomenon has become contagious. In the staid halls of the United Nations, the fibs have...

Last semester I wrote a column, "So-called Friends of Israel are anything but," Oct. 22, 2002, denouncing a document distributed by Friends of Israel, a student group at the University. In unambiguously...

Apparently it's never too early to legislate hate. Five Minnesota House of Representatives members last week introduced a bill to remove civil rights protections for gays and lesbians from the state's...

Do you trust George W. Bush? It's a simple question, really. It's also not just rhetorical. According to a report in The New York Times, the White House believes that much of its case for escalating the...

So corrupt is American political life that Henry Kissinger's recent appointment to lead the official commission investigating the attacks of Sept. 11 elicited, according to the New York Times, "mostly...

Consider this a plea for memory. Last week President George W. Bush exploited the occasion of Veterans Day to once again threaten an escalation of the American war against Iraq. "This great nation Ö will...

Heard the one about U.N. weapons inspectors being expelled from Iraq in 1998? Or how about the International Atomic Energy Agency report claiming the Hussein regime is "six months away from developing...

Last week, I had the good fortune to attend a campus forum featuring Na'eem Jeenah, a South African lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand and a veteran of the anti-apartheid movement. Jeenah...

Stanley Milgram, a researcher at Yale University, was curious about why people obeyed the Nazis during the Holocaust. Believing he might empirically help to develop an answer, Milgram set out in the early...

Two weeks ago, Nelson Mandela told Newsweek magazine that the United States represents "a threat to world peace." Its posturing on Iraq, he claimed, was grounded in the Bush administration's "desire to...

It is not often a columnist is willing to admit in print he was wrong, but here it goes. Since Sept. 11, I have consistently argued against a military response to the atrocities in New York and Washington,...

I can't even begin to estimate how many times I've heard Americans proudly assert, without really knowing why, "We're number one!" During the Persian Gulf War, this became something of an obscene mantra...

For years, the two largest recipients of U.S. foreign aid have been Israel and Egypt, which combined collect approximately $5 billion from American taxpayers annually. Two weeks ago, Rene Kosirnik of the...