Paul Greenberg

The myth of Mikhail Gorbachev was in place even before the man stepped into obsolescence. If this were a docudrama, and it will be, it could be called ''Gorbachev: Greatness...

The Soviet Disunion now lacks not only clear borders and institutions, but what was once clearest about the whole criminal enterprise called communism: an ideology. It is not only the...

The young woman was showing the familiar signs of pre-Christmas trauma. ''Every year I promise myself I`m not going to do this,'' she said, ''but every year I`ve got so...

The War of the Sexes: If there is anything funnier-or sadder-than man`s view of woman, surely it is woman`s view of man. Forget Havelock Ellis; just consult the classic works...

The Bush administration begins to exhibit telltale signs of a familiar malady, the same one that did in the country`s last Democratic administration and ushered in a decade of Republican...

Steve Sovern lost a race for Congress in Iowa last year and wound up going to law school instead of Washington. That hasn`t kept him from rendering a public service...

When I heard Bob Kerrey, the presidential hopeful from Nebraska, say the solution to this country`s chronic crisis in health care was more tax dollars, I knew he didn`t understand...

It`s now clear when the American market for social and political satire received its death blow-about 1985, when the Dallas Times Herald fired Joe Bob Briggs, whose specialty was reviewing...

The case for direct talks between Arabs and Israelis has been borne out by the news from Madrid, where the fandango of negotiations, counter-negotiations, appearances and snubs continued for several...

The posturing has just begun at the peace conference in Madrid, which has brought together Arabs and Israelis for the first time in a couple of decades- and doubtless will...