Richard Hart

There are so many tragedies wrapped up in the bloody chaos in Haiti. There’s the specter of anarchy and further hardships in a nation already the poorest in the hemisphere. There’s the possibility of death squad leaders coming to power. There’s the frustration certain to set in when the jubilation (by some) at the departure […]

By far, the most perplexing question in the whole tragedy that has become the invasion of Iraq is why intelligent editors at American newspapers didn’t see the real story from the beginning. Long before Paul O’Neill and David Kay’s revelations, it was clear to us and most of the rest of the planet that the […]

One year from this week, a president will be inaugurated on the cold, blustery steps of the U.S.Capitol. With this issue, we’re beginning a campaign to do everything within our power to see that it isn’t George W. Bush. And we’re asking for your help. The reasons are painfully clear: an unnecessary war and poorly […]

Forget G.I. Joe as our main defender of liberty. There’s a bigger battle brewing–for media domination. This is a job for Batman. I discovered this by checking out a couple of my son’s new Batman toys. “Fractal Armor Batman” is up against not just Catwoman and the Joker (or Michael Powell and Clear Channel), but […]

The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah (which is a big deal in my house) started last week and continues through Saturday. We all know it for the story of the oil found in the desecrated Temple that was just enough to burn for one day, but miraculously lasted eight. For Jews around the world, it’s also […]

The new Durham City Council had its first test this week, and it failed miserably. Its members had the opportunity to make a statement about the principles they stand for and the kind of city they want Durham to be. They could have said that we, the people of this city and this region, determine […]

Something’s up. On Sunday and Monday nights, in the midst of the exhausting run-up to the holidays, hundreds of people braved the cold to watch a political documentary. At Helios Coffee in Raleigh, they had to add showings, and some sat out in the cold and watched through windows. The upstairs library at Ringside in […]

For more than a year now, we’ve been writing about the lies and distortions used by the Bush Administration to shove the invasion of Iraq down the throats of the American people. There were the stories of the mobile labs that weren’t, the uranium yellow cake that wasn’t, the aluminum tubes that couldn’t. There were […]

In these weeks when the leaves burn red and orange and the dim cover of twilight cuts too soon into the day, it is greens that give us hope. We plant them at the end of summer, an act of faith that even as the light goes and the cold wraps around, we will survive–and […]