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Family Security Matters
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While democratic government is better than dictatorships and theocracies, it has its pitfalls. FSM Contributing Editor Philip Atkinson describes some of the difficulties facing President Bush today.
President George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the..
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Rolling Stone
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An unfamiliar viewer tuning in to Keith Olbermann's prime-time news program on MSNBC, Countdown, might, at first glance, assume he was watching a highly traditional broadcaster. Olbermann has a long, sober face and trim hair that's going gray. With his gl..
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USA Today
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The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has sued to get rid of crosses in city parks, to end Good Friday public holidays and, most vigorously, to thwart President Bush's faith-based initiative.
Now, the group that for 30 years has sought a..
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www.damninteresting.com
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In the early 1930s, a secret collection of prosperous men are said to have assembled in New York City to discuss the dissolution of America's democracy. As a consequence of the Great Depression, the countryside was littered with unemployed, and the world'..
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New York Times
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Among the dozens of wrenching accounts to come out of the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, the actions of 20-year-old Jeremy Hernandez were a bright spot: Trapped in a tipping school bus with 50 children, he kicked open the back door..
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ABC News
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It has all the ingredients for the ultimate conspiracy theory.
Take President Bush and his father, throw in a legendary Apache chief, strange rituals performed in the dead of night in a building named the Tomb, grave robbing, and a secret society of el..
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ABC News
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Emily Nicely, 19, was routinely beaten with broom handles, a metal pipe, belts and wooden boards.
She was forced to quit school, to do chores and deliver newspapers without pay. She was by any definition -- including those of the federal government and..
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Washington Post
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Cynthie Bush pulled on her coat and started to say goodbye. She and a friend were taking a night out -- three hours in all, for a quick dinner and a PTA event. It was not the kind of thing she did often, with two small children and a full-time job.
But..
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Alter Net
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When one military wife got the news that her husband was coming home from Iraq, they didn't tell her he was going to bring the war back with him.
I was folding fliers for a high school workshop on nonviolence when my husband, a mortar platoon sergeant..
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