BY FROMA HARROP Hardly a week goes by without some demand for an apology populating my inbox. I have never apologized for two reasons: The usual one is that I’m not sorry. The other is that calls for an apology have become an irritating tactic in American political discourse, a kind of bullying. That doesn’t […]

BY DAVID PERRYMAN A few nights ago a small rural community near you convened its regular monthly meeting. It is a good town populated by...

BY SHARON MARTIN Marauding Buddhist monks terrorize citizens in Myanmar. Buddhists, for heaven’s sake! An avowed Christian kills three at a Planned Parenthood clinic. Two...

   BY FROMA HARROP Terrorism is not going away. We saw that in the closing of the Los Angeles schools after what was deemed a “credible” threat. The threat turned out to be not real, but with the country under heightened alarm, local authorities have become hyper-vigilant. That was 650,000 students sent or kept home. […]

 BY SUSAN ESTRICH By now, probably everyone in the world knows that Los Angeles fell for what has been determined was a “hoax.” It was not a serious and credible threat like the one that led Brussels to close its entire city; rather it was, as a former NYPD detective described it, a “cut-and-paste” job […]