Hyde Park's Corner

Moderate Republican NY Times columnist David Brooks often speaks for we independents ranging between center-right and center left--which i...

Okay, so it's another " Onion- type" fake news item I stole from friend Jim Barr. But this one's even better. Only the iro...

  I stole this humorous New Yorker piece from friend, Jim Barr. Just too entertaining not to pass on.   I respect Speaker John Boehn...

So this is what it has come to, our worst fears. Ours is now a despairing--no, frightening--state of political affairs and governance in th...

That’s about the only way you can respond to these singularly beautiful and interesting birds: wow! And that beauty is inextricably bound ...

Scarborough: Today as a nation we grieve   Joe Scarborough, talk show host and former conservative congressman, begins the Monday, Dec...

On a lighter, quirkier note, we have the fascinating story of Nefertiti, a red-backed jumping spider that did her patriotic duty aboard the ...

As an American and a person of a Christian faith, it troubles me deeply that people who call themselves Christians are so willing to judge o...

Joe Klein, excerpted from his recent Time article:   Suddenly it seems as if everyone in the political world is talking about Steven ...

Daughter Laura continues to move her career through the world of online entertainment journalism. Earlier this year, she left her position a...

More and more, entering college students tie their choices of degree program and curriculum to its immediate prospects for employment and ...

We’ve talked a lot about the dismal state of American political leadership, and the despair it has brought us. And even those of us who tak...

Yesterday the words kept coming to me: "O Captain! My Captain!" Perhaps it was the two Lincoln biographies that faced me from the...

Would You Think It Odd? *   Would you think it odd if Hafiz said,   "I am in love with every church And mosque And temple An...

In a difficult call for them, and saying that America could do better than Barack Obama, The Economist has nonetheless endorsed the re-el...

Time magazine offers us two strong and well-informed advocates, each making the case for his candidate. These authors, and an endorsement ...

We hear so much about the need to responsibly reduce the budget deficit. Some are unmovable in their support of cold, program reducing aus...

How long do you have to read and reread a poem before it shares its truth with you? For a poem that holds promise, as long as it takes. In ...

At long last, a strong and respected voice has raised the clarion call: we should be concerned about the retarding economic effects of ineq...