During the remaining weeks of 2008 amidst the front page news about the worsening economic situation and the ever growing line of companies looking to stick their faux-Capitalist hands into the T.A.R.P. money, what seemed to be a sudden rash of violent... 

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Director Ron Howard’s film based on Peter Morgan’s 2007 stage play Frost/Nixon (Morgan wrote the screenplay also) makes a compelling case for television as a medium for truth-telling without over-simplification (as is often charged—by, among others,... 

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It is both amazing and troubling to me that in the relatively short span of seventy-eight years, a important piece of American history can be almost wholly wiped from the minds of the populous. Perhaps it is no coincidence that as America took its first... 

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I’ve been stumped ever since the United States decided to defeat terrorism by using “shock and awe.” “Shock and awe” is the phrase the Bush administration presented to refer to spectacular displays of military force in order to paralyze the... 

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