The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be ….

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control..

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too..

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick b….

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every ….

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination..

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion..

No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ail….

So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal….

There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming tren….

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the t….

No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein..

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to….

Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of peo….

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea P….

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to ….

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a….

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery..

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts..

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection..