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Editor's Letter: Advocates for truth
feature I found it striking that veteran journalist Daniel Schorr passed away last week just as tens of thousands of classified U.S. documents relating to the Afghanistan war were published by WikiLeaks.
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Editor's Letter: A mosque near the World Trade Center
feature As arguments raged over the location of mosques in New York and around the country, I thought of Jack Morgan and his predetermined ideas about who was responsible for the 1920 Wall Street blast that killed 38 and injured hundreds.
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Editor's Letter: Dear friends
feature While some in Washington use weasel words to shirk responsibility, I’ve always made a habit of honest talk—which is how I’ll address your question about federal spending. If by "spending" you mean...
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Editor's Letter: If the Tea Party were black
feature For the sake of this exercise, imagine that members of Congress in March had been surrounded by thousands of angry African-Americans, yelling insults at white, Southern politicians.
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Editor's Letter: Cape Wind
feature We’d all like to believe we arrive at our political positions through careful, dispassionate analysis, but the truth is that they are often the product of naked self-interest, tribal identification, and/or gut-deep prejudices.
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Editor's Letter: How we meet the enemy
feature Having searched for common ground among scheming sheiks, will the Iraq and Afghanistan vets who return home and run for public office be able to use similar skills to straddle the divide between their blue and red compatriots?
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Editor's Letter: The aid flotilla
feature The complex truth is that the terrorists who run Hamas really are committed to killing Israelis, while innocent Gazans really are suffering under the blockade.
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Editor's Letter: Reforming America’s public schools
feature At the conventions of the two national teachers unions this month, President Obama was persona non grata and Education Secretary Arne Duncan was denounced in absentia.
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Editor's Letter: Christopher Hitchens confronts cancer
feature Suddenly faced with mortality, Hitchens has begun his last assignment, explaining in his droll, sharply observed prose his “deportation” to the land of the gravely sick.
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Editor's Letter: “What is your dream job?”
feature The danger in reading polls is that you discover things about your neighbors you’d prefer not to know. Take, for example, the recent Marist poll that asked our fellow Americans, “What is your dream job?”
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Editor's Letter: Labor Day
feature All of this has left Labor Day feeling increasingly like summer’s other bookend, Memorial Day. It has acquired a wistful, elegiac air, its parade steeped in past glory and present anxieties.
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Editor's Letter: Do Americans have a right to medical care?
feature Once you endow citizens with certain inalienable rights, you set in motion a process that’s hard to stop.
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Editor's Letter: Total transparency or rebellion?
feature Have you ever sent a snarky e-mail you wouldn’t want published?
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Editor's Letter: Groping our way forward
feature In moments of distress and panic, it is tempting to succumb to ideologies that promise a single, simple solution to the mess that is the human condition.
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