Hillary: A Wee Bit Silly

Hillary: A Wee Bit Silly

The first time I saw Hillary Clinton speak in person, she addressed about 80,000 people. But they hadn't come to see her. The time was November, 1995 and the place was the downtown area of my native Belfast. The Irish Republican Army had called a ceasefire a...

Bottlenecked

Bottle recycling in Massachusetts has slowly declined over the past few years. Many environmental groups, including MASSPIRG, the Sierra Club and the Container Recycling Institute, cite two major reasons for the decline: the change in the beverage market, and the...

The World This Week: Race to the Bottom

In Detroit right now, a corrupt mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, has been trying to whip up support in the black community by playing the race card.Is there an echo in here?Kilpatrick is in a heap of trouble for charging $210,000 in personal expenses—spa massages,...

Nuevo Mundo: The Candy Store

Puerto Rico went from being an afterthought to nearly the last frontier for both the Democratic Party's presidential candidates.Through tenacious campaigning, Sen. Hillary Clinton has again dashed Sen. Barack Obama's hope of a coronation. Hubris took over...

So Wrong for So Long

When the smoke clears on the Bush era and historians have a chance to take stock of the disaster, the list of American journalists to whom they can turn for the "first draft of history" will be short. Glenn Greenwald—one of the honorable few—did...