14 years ago today, my first day teaching in Providence, a day whose events and aftermath we all will be living and dealing with for decade...

1. More than anything about the World Trade Center before 2001, I remember the subterranean maze of the concourse, always pulsing with t...

Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) I didn't start blogging until 2005; last mon...

Installation View, Emily Prince at the Saatchi Gallery, via Saatchi Gallery Today, with Memorial Day in mind, I was thinking of artis...

Panetta, in Iraq This is the way the war ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.  And though American troops are still there, though in s...

Last November the Democrats defeated the Republicans handily to take control of both houses of Congress. Democratic Senate candidates won ...