Bad food and the high cost of loyalty

The other night at the perfectly awful White House Correspondents bash, singer Sheryl Crow and docudrama producer Laurie David ("An Inconvenient Truth") made their way across the vast landscape of…

April 24, 20071 CommentRead More

Looking for ways to eliminate gun law loopholes

Grappling with the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history, lawmakers said Sunday they want to eliminate a gap between state and federal laws that…

April 23, 200711 CommentsRead More

Former World Bank execs say Wolfowitz must go

A group of top former World Bank executives has urged Paul Wolfowitz to resign, as the bank's watchdog warned his actions were undermining…

April 23, 20074 CommentsRead More

Time to stand up against the gun lobby

Missing from the incredible outpouring of grief in the tragedy at Virginia Tech was the one ingredient that might provide a measure of assurance that it won't happen again --…

April 20, 200740 CommentsRead More

Ethics for sale?

Millionaire Jared Polis, whose ethics measure prevents a lobbyist from buying a lawmaker even a cup of coffee, is part of a group that has spent more than $150,000 so…

April 20, 20071 CommentRead More

Abortion decision energizes opponents

The Supreme Court's endorsement of the first federal curbs on an abortion procedure in a generation suggests that even with Democrats in control of Congress, efforts to preserve abortion rights…

April 19, 200712 CommentsRead More

What about the right to live?

This was the week when I was going to put anger aside and smile again. But then some fool at Virginia Tech picked up guns, killed 32 innocents and blasted…

April 19, 20074 CommentsRead More

Videos, photos bring back horror of shootings

Two days after the worst killing spree in modern U.S. history, the shooter again assaulted Virginia Tech — though this time it was in…

April 19, 20076 CommentsRead More

Tech struggles to deal with massacre

Virginia Tech students and supporters lifted thousands of candles to a sapphire sky to remember the 32 people killed by a campus gunman. …

April 18, 20073 CommentsRead More

Putting the Tech massacre into perspective

As I write these words, news reports out of Blacksburg, Va., say that more than 30 people have been shot to death on the campus of Virginia Tech, and that…

April 18, 20071 CommentRead More