The American Psychiatric Association’s latest handbook — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) — is about to be published. It is the handbook of mental health and if you’re not in it you are among the fortunate few. Even though the hour is late, I beseech the DSM’s publishers to consider one additional entry, the seriousness of which will be apparent to anyone who watches Fox News: Benghazi Syndrome.
And so, what Jack McMahon audaciously called a racist prosecution, wherein a black man in Philadelphia was being called to account for ending the lives of countless nameless black babies, has ended in a righteous verdict: guilty, guilty, and again, guilty.
How’s your wife? It depends — compared to whom?
Jason Richwine is a type in American politics.
On the warm, clear morning of 9/11, with the towers still ablaze, a workmate and I set out on foot from our office in midtown Manhattan toward what later became known as Ground Zero. This was years before smart phones. With electricity out in much of the downtown, people we passed had turned to a decades-old news source: They huddled around the open doors of parked cars and listened to the radios.
If you need more evidence that much of the U.S. military treats sexual assault like one big frathouse joke, look no further than what allegedly happened outside a bar near Washington in the early morning hours of Cinco de Mayo.
Next weekend marks the 15th anniversary of the Cuba Nostalgia Fair, a three-day event that seeks to bring pre-Castro Cuba to life through a lively combination of art, performances, food and a strong emphasis on Cuba’s pre-revolutionary achievements.
Eliécer Ávila is up with the roosters every morning, shoveling pig manure in the modest farm in the province of Las Tunas, Cuba, where this graduate of the country’s only computer science university raises pigs for a living. He sold nine in late January just before he left the island for the first time to visit friends in Sweden.
Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP?
In the wake of several Cuban dissidents’ enlightening visits to the United States — among them Yoani Sánchez, Rosa María Payá and Berta Soler — came last weekend’s arrival of Raúl Castro’s daughter, Mariela Castro, who attended (with special dispensation from the State Department) a ceremony in Philadelphia to collect, of all things, a human rights award. The brilliant American comic Carol Burnett once said, “Comedy is tragedy plus time.” This expertly sums up the Cuban political polemic. Observed, studied and lived over time, Cuban politics of the last half century remains a classic tragedy that has played out as farce over 54 years.
Of course we love those macaroni necklaces. And who wouldn’t want another mug?
With prom, graduation and summer approaching, we are heading into the “100 deadliest days” for teen drivers — the days between Memorial Day and Labor Day. According to the AAA, far more teen drivers and passengers die during the summer months than during the school year.
It didn’t take long after news that Israel had bombed military facilities inside Syria for the Arab League to demand that the U.N. Security Council “act immediately to end Israeli attacks on Syria” over what the League called a “dangerous violation of an Arab state’s sovereignty.”
On May 2, 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) made history by naming the first woman — Joanne Deborah Chesimard — to its Most Wanted Terrorist list. This distinction puts Chesimard in fitting company and includes a $2 million reward for information leading to her arrest. It is high time that Chesimard pay for the heinous crimes she committed.
Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint prefaced his condemnation of immigration legislation this week with the same form of inoculation conservatives often use on such occasions: He quoted Emma Lazarus.
The Constitution Project was recently released to the public. According to this report, the torture and abuse of enemy combatants detained in Guantánamo was “unquestionably” committed. In this report, physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers who serve the United States in uniform were also implicated in doing harm.
Along with a boosted Buick LeSabre, another incident listed on a crime report Sunday in Arlington County, Va., was a creepy attack by a man on a woman.
For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions:
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