Paul Greenberg

If there were an award for editorial malpractice, surely it would be shared this political season by The New York Times and Washington Post. They ran twin editorials not long...

Oh, no. It`s happening again. It`s like watching a classical tragedy to which the audience knows all the lines, and can even repeat them with the actors. Only the cast...

There is such a thing as a citizen`s being so innocent and well-intentioned and zealous for the public good that he represents a continuous threat. David Pryor, the junior senator...

No aficionado of American politics can walk onto the floor of a national nominating convention without feeling at least a momentary thrill. It`s not just the milling crowd and red-white-and-blue...

clin-ton-ize: to make over in the image of Wm. J. and H.R. Clinton, fin de siecle political leaders and cultural avatars of late 20th Cent. U.S.A., parents of C. Clinton,...

Here`s hoping Bill Clinton is feeling all right. Usually he glides past tough questions with the greatest of ease, stretching and bending the truth perhaps, but rarely if ever indulging...

Jesse Jackson fits into this new, softer, clintonized and gored Democratic Party about as well as a peacock at a convention of sparrows. Tuesday night, Brother Jackson brought his rambling,...

It`s bad form for us inky wretches of the press to admit we`re excited by the prospects of attending a national nominating convention. Tends to make us sound less like...

The separation of church and state may be the most undervalued of basic American principles, and there are times when it appears to be hanging on by only a thread...

The victory of the opposition in Israel`s election Tuesday, and by a surprisingly large margin, represents a triumph of hope over fear. Israel`s voters chose to give peace, or at...