Paul Greenberg

Labor omnia vincit, the Romans used to say. The maxim sounds more American than Roman even if it does come from Virgil; an imperial power tends to sing of arms...

Remember Charles Colson? He was one of the Watergate Gang who actually did time, unlike Richard Nixon. Colson didn`t get a presidential library, but he does run Prison Fellowship Ministries....

For a summary of European attitudes toward current events, there are worse primers than the movie, ''Casablanca.'' At one particularly delightful moment in the film, Claude Rains as Captain Reynaud...

The kindest thing to say about Justice Thurgood Marshall`s intemperate outburst against a nominee to the court on which he sits would be . . . nothing. After all, ladies...

Here are seven obvious lessons of Iraq`s invasion of Kuwait that still aren`t obvious enough to the world: 1. The Middle East is a dangerous neighborhood. Another, even older way...

What would you say is ''the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today''? Abortion? Right-to-die? Affirmative action and racial quotas? Education? Wrong on all counts, according...

The Supreme Court justices are a-changin`. Just like the times. They need to. Few things are so dangerous to a society than legal philosophy that outlives its time and grows...

Consider this a meditation on Carlos Fuentes, Jules Feiffer, Ronald Reagan and History-as unlikely as any tag team you are likely to find this side of championship wrestling. First, Carlos...

Congress is in session, so it was time the other day for some solemn farce-like the perennial constitutional amendment to balance the budget. This proposal is not to be confused,...

It`s time for some shop talk, specifically about the craze for new directions in news. My text today comes from the redoubtable Lee Atwater, national chairman and-before his recent illness-pit...