New Deal News

What a sorry lot we humans are, particularly those of us immersed in the "American Way of Life." Killing is indeed our business.

Respective humans take a personally channelled mind-linked private focus on what they want to do with their lives as mind-guided entities.

Humans are complex sentient creatures. In addition, we also share behavioural as well as organic traits with other animals.

The matter "bread", as the root feature of this title, is a borrowed focus. It comes from a biblical source with which many people are familiar.

The corporate mass-media is playing a key role in seeking to shape the broad public perception of the current financial crisis.

Treasury Secretary Paulson and President Bush backed by the Democratic Congressional leadership have asked Congress for $700 billion dollars to bailout Wall Street financial institutions.

Biographer Susan Quinn undertakes to illuminate one of the darker corners of recent American history - how, during the depths of the Depression, a group of performing artists made something meaningful and ...

Naturally, the strategy was opposed by "experts" in the Pentagon and the State Department.

There's a bevy of books out there diagnosing "what went wrong" with conservatism and the Republican party, but this is one of the most original ones.

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was best known for the two words on its cover, "Don't Panic!" Of course, when you have Vogons wandering around destroying entire planets to make way for galactic highways ...

Herald Editor According to Rob Knight, there's no need to start gathering pairs of animals .

Jennet Conant sets straight a record some might consider a tad twisted in The Irregulars , her book about the World War II espionage exploits of British author Roald Dahl.

Comics historian Ben Schwartz writing at Bookforum finds the roots of Reaganism in that adorable li'l gamine, star of stage, screen, and the comics page, Little Orphan Annie.

Sen. John McCain is being branded as "the original Maverick," the appropriateness of which I leave to the reader.

Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater by William F. Buckley Jr., Basic Books, 208 pages, $25.95 Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein, Scribner, 881 pages, $37.50 ...

In this issue, we observe the 100th birthday of Lyndon Johnson with a memoir by Observer founding editor Ronnie Dugger about the personal and public relationship between the young editor and one of the most ...

James K. Galbraith's The Predator State brings to mind an illustration I saw as a child of a small mammal eating the giant egg of a dinosaur.

Firefighters rescued a scared toddler trapped for more than half an hour in a 51/2-foot pipe Monday evening.

For more than 40 years, the seeds planted in Washington, D.C., by McLennan County native Bob Poage reaped rewards here in Central Texas.

Former New Deal Police Chief Sam Butler had his second day in a Lubbock court Tuesday relating to a charge of aggravated perjury.