Gary Leupp

How a modest project by a mainstream US Muslim group backed by the New York City mayor and unanimously approved by the city community committee has been transformed into a general attack on Muslim rights

The pope conflates Christianity, the west, and Reason explicitly while implicitly linking Islam, violence, and irrational intolerance. How sweet that His Holiness's erudition should elliptically reference Iran, while the Bush administration prepares

'If this unanticipated poll result exposes Bush's hypocrisy, lends encouragement to forces in Egypt and elsewhere who demand free elections in order to topple US.-backed dictators, and produces a setback to the neocons' efforts to remake Southwest As

According to a recent article, that is receiving a lot of attention, US President Bush's "erratic behavior" is worrying White House aides. But then shouldn't the entire world be worrying about "instability and delusions of messianic grandeur"?

There is great disorder under heaven, as the Chinese communists, when they were communists, used to say. But there's also opportunity...

On the contemporary relevance of the Manchurian Incident

"Mohammed Atta met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad prior to September 11. We have proof of that, and we are sure he wasn't just there for a holiday. The meeting is one of the motives of an American attack on Iraq."

Iraq's neighbors, including U.S. friends Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, even Kuwait, say they don't feel threatened by Iraq and also oppose a war. Emphatically. Only Israel's Prime Minister Sharon is egging Washington on,

How could the author of "Ghost of Tom Joad" and "41 Shots" tell Time Magazine that he supported Bush's attack on Afghanistan?

Why, one might ask, in this battle-hardened country brimming with warriors, in which Kalashnikovs outnumber men, should its head of state require this foreign guardianship?