Photos sent to us by Muslims showed prisoners of war being beheaded, dragged to death by speeding vehicles and hung by the heels under bridges. ...more

May 29, 2009

Too many people have been stricken by obsessive materialism. ...more

January 9, 2009

Sometimes I sit back and think there is no hope for mankind. The media reports daily about the atrocities we inflict on each other, and I shake my head in disbelief. ...more

September 22, 2008

The notorious Abu Ghraib prison is getting a face-lift: work to reopen the facility and construct a museum documenting Saddam Hussein's crimes - but not the abuses committed there by U.S. guards. ...more

September 6, 2008

Earl Column Refreshing Re: Fran Earl's weekly column. ...more

May 13, 2008

"Detective Story," by Imre Kertesz (Knopf, $21) In a novel only 112 pages long, you might expect more to be unsaid than said, and this is the case with "Detective Story" by Imre Kertesz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. ...more

January 27, 2008

Britain, Japan, Australia and others are pushing for an unprecedented treaty regulating the arms trade worldwide, in a campaign likely to last years and to pit them against a determined American foe, the National Rifle Association. ...more

October 1, 2007