To me, the fun part of both jobs is to always try to push the discussion and debate forward in some way. The most fun part of being a theater critic ….

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals..

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years..

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater..

If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're lear….

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignme….

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right..

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved..

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what….

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics..

What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse..

There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney ….

The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the ….

Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," . . . can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or even endurance. After 30-odd . . . Mr Brynner i….

Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes..

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presid….

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news..

What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American childr….

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis,….

Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a….

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in ….