Bryan Gardiner

“Dude, shut up for a second. This is my jam!” That was the warning a guy in front of me issued to his friend as the somber, monklike chanting from the Halo soundtrack reverberated across the Hollywood Bowl. Unable to wait for a more upbeat moment in the score, he......

Live 8 may not have been, as Coldplay’s Chris Martin, contended, “the greatest thing that’s been organized, probably, in the history of the world,” but it certainly was something. Even Bill O’Reilly warmed to the global love fest via his new best friend Bono, who has convinced O’Reilly that humanitarian......

Until recently, the official talk about Iraq and its insurgency was all about phrases like “faltering,” “losing ground” and “in its last throes.” As that insurgency seems ever more aggressive, both Democrats and Republicans have started questioning that rhetoric’s distance from reality. In response, administration officials got semantic, backtracking, parsing......

“The gulag of our times” — that’s how last week’s Amnesty International report characterized the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. In light of the five known incidents of Koran abuse — none of them, apparently, toilet-related — and myriad other reports of torture and abuse at detention facilities in......