It's one of the bloodiest battles of the war so far. And it doesn't even involve any U.S. soldiers. It's the battle between MSNBC and FOX over Peter Arnett and Geraldo Rivera. More

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Both my sister and brother went to graduate school at the University of Michigan. They intently followed arguments this week before the Supreme Court concerning their alma mater's race-conscious admissions practices. More

While much of the world waits to see what kind of transitional government the coalition forces set up in Iraq, many may have missed the fact that quite possibly Iraq

Inspiration can sometimes be found at a funeral, and not just when the deceased has achieved fame. I recently attended the funeral of Leonard Davis, the father of childhood friends. The Davises were different in our neighborhood because Mr. Davis was an alcoholic. And he was the kind of alcoholic that heaped personal hardship and public shame upon his five children and his long-suffering wife. More

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Last Wednesday, right around the time U.S. forces were wading into the thick of the battle, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, called for a halt to the war: "Rescue this nation from a war that is wrong, that is unjust, that is immoral." More

The lottery debate currently raging between Gov. Phil Bredesen and State Sen. Steve Cohen is all about politics, despite Cohen

When it comes to learning from its mistakes, Corporate America has fallen off the rehab wagon more times than Robert Downey Jr. Exhibit A is HealthSouth. Last week, another high-ranking executive at the nation's largest provider of rehabilitative health-care services pleaded guilty to cooking the company's books. More

It must have been the sandstorm. Remember a couple of weeks ago when everyone in Iraq was blinded by the whorl of dust? Today we might figure that embedded in those blistering grains of hard dust was a meme, one of those catchy ideas that gets implanted in the human mind and multiplies through the culture like a virus. More