By Bob Gaydos
The news the Times saw fit to print on this particular day included tales of monkey business, brutality at the Bolshoi and the liberation of Timbuktu.

By Emily Theroux
The Republican Party has become a figment of its own delusions, the same ones it devised to foist on unwary simpletons. It has no moral center, and Americans know it.

By Michael Kaufman
In the name of “entitlement reform” attempts are being made to cut safety net programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. But some other entitlements really do need reform and here are a few suggestions for openers.

By Jeffrey Page
In Chambliss’ world view, the fact that Max Cleland left three limbs in Vietnam counted for nothing.

By Bob Gaydos
Barack Obama has not changed. He has merely waited for the right time to let his inner, progressive self out.

By Jeffrey Page
He was right on gay rights. He seemed hesitant on guns.

By Michael Kaufman
Harry Golden used the pages of The Carolina Israelite to voice his opinions on many issues of the day, most famously his opposition to the segregation laws that still held sway in the southern states. Some of his opinions seem even more timely today,

By Emily Theroux
I could only bear to imagine the baby as a fragile cluster of cells, straining implausibly towards viability. Soon enough, I would make a conscious choice to extinguish its life force like a tiny, flickering candle.

By Michael Kaufman
An article in a medical journal offers a history of the lives of some of the victims of Third Reich anatomy experiments.

By Bob Gaydos
Time magazine got it wrong in picking Barack Obama person of the year. A 15-year-old girl with no armies at her command had the most profound effect on the world last year.