Jair Bolsonaro with his son Eduardo. Wikimedia Commons."The left must kick-start a response substituting insecurity for collective action and hope." On October 12, 2014, a group of artists convened in…
In October 2017, The New York Times and The New Yorker reported that dozens of women had come forward accusing Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse. The accusations against Weinstein…
A crisp winter day in Derry. Fifteen thousand gathered to protest against detention without trial. At ten past four, British paratroopers opened fire. Twenty-eight people were shot, some in the…
In the business stories he wrote for the Post, Sinclair Lewis satirized the short-sighted, self-serving pomposity within American business. (He would have no end of inspiration were he writing today.)…
In Sept. 2016, The Washington Post accused Donald Trump of violating a law against “self-dealing” in 2007 by purchasing a painting of himself with his charity’s money. According to the story,…
She hadn’t meant to be a thief. But then none of us do, and all of us are, stealing time and taxes and other people’s laughter, if nothing worse. Thieves.…
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat (left) and BJP National Chief Amit Shah release coffee table book on the life of the PM Narendra Modi, July 2017. Hindustan Times/Press Association. All rights…
Since the crack of dawn on Thursday morning, crowds of protesters have been gathering outside the U.S. Capitol and Supreme Court to support Christine Blasey-Ford and protest Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme…
“Donnie doesn’t deserve Deborah’s doll collection. I mean, look at the oaf. His hands are like a pair of uncooked ham hocks, slopping about.” “Oh please, Sarabeth, y’all need to…
As part of the ramp up to the release of his new album, “Yhandi,” Kanye West has dialed the confusing behavior up another notch. The drop date has become a…
"I roar". Lemuel Gulliver famously sprawled, with Lilliputians,1894. Wikicommons/ Charles E.Brock. Some rights reserved.If we want to grasp the impact of Brexit on citizens’ and workers’ rights, we must mentally detach ourselves…
Originally published in the Post on May 22, 1920. Of course, we did have our bits of the higher life once in a while in the old days. Whenever the…