Iran: Engagement, Finally
It's simply the most unadulterated good news to come out of this administration ever. Dare I say they've done something right?
If you want to tell that gorilla rape joke to your spouse or parents, have at it. If Senator McCain wants to tell a joke like that, he embarrasses more than just himself.
It's simply the most unadulterated good news to come out of this administration ever. Dare I say they've done something right?
It's official: Barack Obama will speak in Berlin before the Victory Column in the Tiergarten with the Brandenburg Gate just down the road. So much for the controversy.
I ask you to join with me to call on every candidate, at every level, to accept this challenge -- for America to be running on 100 percent zero-carbon electricity in 10 years. We need to act now.
While we can't expect Obama to account for the militarism of the U.S. government of his childhood, he must stop the militarism of the government he's preparing to lead as an adult.
The courts have made clear that no one, not even the president, is immune from compulsory process. Any person who scoffs at the law and who has committed an offense should be put in jail.
The imagery on the cover of the New Yorker represents the quality of conversation on race and religion in this country: mixed messages, nothing decoded.
Condi needs to either convince the president what a catastrophe attacking Iran would be. Or, failing that, break with the administration and do the noble thing by resigning while it still might make a difference.
There's no doubt that Obama makes news differently than McCain. But there's a difference between covering candidates equally and meticulously allotting them equal time and coverage.
The heart of the, at times, sublime The Dark Knight is Ledger's Joker -- who shows us the world is a place of two faces, of darkness and light, of organization and chaos.
Tax havens like Lichtenstein are engaged in economic warfare against the US and honest, hardworking taxpayers. Each year, the US Treasury loses an estimated $100 billion in revenues from offshore abuses.
Some Americans and politicians believe my brother was to blame for his own murder because he voted Democratic.
When 500,000 foreign visitors descend on Beijing during the Olympics, they will experience a kaleidoscope of contrasts -- some maddening, others glorious -- that disorient and confuse.