I was pleased with your recent editorial praising President Obama but dismayed that it was sandwiched between two dogmatic writings by columnists. First, it was heartbreaking to see brilliant young Suzannah Beiner apparently being totally brainwashed by the far right wing. It appears that she has used her remarkable talents to gain a total command of rarely used English words, that very few of her readers will understand but has totally missed learning basic science. ...more

December 20, 2009

"A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East - From the Cold War to the War on Terror," by Patrick Tyler (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30) ...more

January 11, 2009

Florida presently stands on the brink of adopting science standards that call evolution "the fundamental concept underlying all of biology." ...more

February 18, 2008