Emotions after Katrina

The emotional trauma of Katrina equals or surpasses that of 9-11.  This time we have lost an entire city, a city that rivals New York in its significance to this country as a symbol, a source of culture, a port, a gathering point. 

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Who is a Christian?

This is an important question, in a country that is ruled by people who claim to be Christians.  In the US, 85% of the population identifies as Christian.  Many of these people are reluctant to challenge the Bush administration, even now, because of Bush's self-proclaimed "born-again Christian" identity

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The Two Americas

     Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds. More than 1.5 million Cubans were evacuated to higher ground ahead of the storm. Although the hurricane destroyed 20,000 houses, no one died.

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Appy on Vietnam and Iraq, the Heartland Experience

On the April day in 2003 when American troops first entered Baghdad, historian Marilyn Young suggested that Operation Iraqi Freedom was "Vietnam on crack cocaine." She wrote presciently at the time:

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