Madness

A nation of pistols and Prozac

Untitled Document In the London Times, under the headline “The United States of America has gone mad,” the British novelist John le Carré began his

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Feature | Wednesday, April 4,2007

That’s all she wrote

A tribute to Molly Ivins, the Red Rose of Texas

By Hal Crowther

Untitled Document At the end of the film Venus, which stars Peter O’Toole as a decrepit actor holding off his final curtain, Vanessa Redgrave delivers a bleak line: “

Feature | Wednesday, March 21,2007

That’s all she wrote

A tribute to Molly Ivins, the Red Rose of Texas

By Hal Crowther

Untitled Document At the end of the film Venus, which stars Peter O’Toole as a decrepit actor holding off his final curtain, Vanessa Redgrave delivers a bleak line: “

Politics | Thursday, December 14,2006

The jig is up

We'll remember November, when our hopes were dashed - and rekindled

By Hal Crowther

November 2006 was a month that historians will study in minute detail, day by day and headline by headline, when they attempt to reconstruct the iron chain of misery the United States has been forging

Politics | Wednesday, November 1,2006

Bring it on

People are working harder and earning less, and the rich are raking it in. Time to even the score.

By Hal Crowther

The myth of Robin Hood — the outlaw who steals from the rich and gives to the poor (after deducting a modest commission) — is an ancient myth of universal appeal, one that must predate by