It should go without saying that an important part of the approach to this debate should be not to hate anybody, on any side of the argument. Looking through the comments below I am very surprised that several people seem unable to do this. I write as somebody who has spent virtually his whole life […]

Last fall, the late fashion designer Max Azria’s mansion in Los Angeles went on the market for $78 million, which earned it the title of most expensive listing of the week at the time. On the other coast, Azria’s vacation home on Fisher Island in Florida just went up for sale earlier this month. Although the…

Thirteen years ago my life changed forever. Colin Powell, then US Secretary of State and the most credible person in George W. Bush’s cabinet, made the case for war in Iraq on February 5, 2003. As a young military intelligence officer at the time, watching from a makeshift army base in Kuwait not far from the…