Archive for July, 2012

In conjunction with the 19th International AIDS Conference this week in Washington, D.C., Larry Kramer’s prophetic 1984 play, “The Normal Heart,” is being performed at Arena

A big headline in The Washington Post the very day after the latest mass killing in Colorado read, “Both Parties Agree, Colorado Shooting Won’t Change Gun Laws.” Just what our

I began this series in October 2010 with three chapters entitled the same as this, and as I prepare to conclude, I’ll reiterate why I began that way. First, the overall series title,

What was especially troubling about the Louis Freeh report on the Penn State child rapist atrocity was not how extraordinary or unspeakable the whole thing was, including the crimes and their

There is plenty of evidence out there, noodling its way into the news almost every day, that the world is heading into a new phase of the financial collapse that began five years ago. Your stock

No one knew better about the worst fate that can beset a homosexual – to become hopelessly jaded, indifferent and cruel – than gay playwright Tennessee Williams. The subject became,

The incredible, ongoing breakdown of critical communications, power and water infrastructure around the nation’s most vital political and national security assets – including the Capital, the

The core thesis of this series is the novel notion that same-sex erotic attraction is a variant and derivative of the natural bond between humans more akin to empathy than the physically