Paul Greenberg

It happened at Bill Clinton`s press conference Monday. One appropriately nosy reporter asked what Bill Moyers was doing in town visiting the president- elect and -electress. Clinton explained that Moyers...

For some of us, the great moment every election night is not the victory speech-who cannot survive victory?-but the concession speech. That`s the great test of character in a leader....

So this is what History feels like: Small knots of people beginning to form through the late afternoon, drifting down side streets and, no longer aimless, drawn to one place:...

The ethnic cleansing of H.L. Mencken`s great American lingo continues-to the point where it may become so sterilized that only sociologists and the stiffer, more politically correct sort of clergypeople...

How about them Blue Jays? If they were playing any other team but the Braves, with their Arkansas connections, I`d be rooting for the Maple Leaf. Or is it an...

A small item in the news can illuminate a whole political and cultural landscape, like a flare going off over a minefield. For example: Congress has extended the jurisdiction of...

Why does George Bush`s campaign continue to founder-and flounder? Because this is a country of the future, not the past, and Republican rhetoric seems fixated on what has gone before,...

Anyone still worried worried that the country will miss out on presidential debates this election year needn`t fret. Bill Clinton, the president-presumptive according to the polls, has taken enough diametrically...

Nostalgia is the first sign that something of great value is disappearing. It`s been creeping up on baseball for years. Like a pallbearer. These days the nostalgia seems more evident...

Do they count the dead anymore in what was Yugoslavia? Soon it may be easier to count the remaining survivors-if anybody`s interested. I found a story on the latest massacre...