How Obama Can Create Jobs and Decrease Unemployment

Steven Hill, 01.05.2010

Director, Political Reform Program, New America Foundation

It's time for either some new ideas from across the Atlantic, where "social capitalism" is weathering this storm better than U.S.-style "Wall Street capitalism."

Auschwitz Revisited: The Holocaust and the Abortion Debate

Jacob M. Appel, 12.06.2009

Bioethicist and medical historian

Comparing abortion clinics to concentration camps diminishes the memory of those who perished, using their suffering for an unrelated political purpose, while generating a rationale for the murder of abortion providers.

Printing money won't solve Europe's problems

Edward Harrison, 12.02.2009

Banking and finance specialist, Global Macro Advisors

This article originally appeared on my site Credit Writedowns "This is definitely a threat on the horizon," said Blaise Ganguin, the age...

Vienna Declaration: Press Freedom and Security Compatible in Fight Against Terrorism

Magda Abu-Fadil, 12.02.2009

Director of Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut

Security and press freedom can coexist, with the free flow of information recognized as the best weapon against terrorism, international media experts argued in a final declaration published this week.

The Pope, The Arts, A Nation in Crisis

Raymond J. Learsy, 11.24.2009

Scholar and author, "Over a Barrel: Breaking Oil’s Grip on Our Future"

We as a nation have not been upholding ample support for the arts, despite the deep spiritual healing that it can bring -- its joys, its shared experience, its sense of what and who we are.

Déjà Vu in Afghanistan

Markus Ziener, 11.22.2009

Hamid Karzai tolerates corruption, accommodates warlords, is not doing enough against drug trafficking and looks the other way when it comes to the Taliban.

Soccer's Worst Floppers

Alan Black, 11.19.2009

Author, Kick the Balls

Soccer is struggling to shake off the curse of flopping -- when a player dives through the air to win his team a penalty. Here's a list of the top soccer floppers.

20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall

Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea, 11.16.2009

Founder and chairman of Weidenfeld & Nicolson

In the future much of the world's power -- however uncomfortable the word may still sound for Germans -- will emanate from Germany, where it is strongly rooted.

Gorbachev's Sermon on the Mount

Robert Scheer, 11.11.2009

Veteran Journalist and Editor of Truthdig.com

When Gorbachev came to power he, like Obama, inherited a war that was not in the interest of his nation. If the response of a Soviet dictator was to end it, might we not be justified in doing the same?

Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down

Chris Weigant, 11.10.2009

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

The fall of The Wall signified the fall of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. And while this was of enormous historical import, I fear that future generations won't really pay much attention to it.

Remembering Kristallnacht in Berlin: The Story of Hans Riess

Stefan Sirucek, 11.09.2009

Independent journalist and foreign correspondent

The reason November 9 -- the day the Berlin Wall fell -- is not a national holiday in Germany, is that it also marks a much darker anniversary: Kristallnacht, the so-called "Night of Broken Glass."

People Power Brought Down the Berlin Wall

Sarah van Gelder, 11.09.2009

Co-Founder and Executive Editor of YES! Magazine

Some argue that the Cold War was just too costly for the Soviet empire to maintain. But the wall couldn't have come down without a nonviolent people power uprising.

Berlin '89: When the Impossible Became Real

Joe Cirincione, 11.09.2009

President of Ploughshares Fund

I was in Berlin 20 years ago this week. I saw the impossible first-hand: the people of Germany taking down the Wall. Twenty years after, we are at another historic point. Domestically, we see it in issues like health care.

Sweden's Queen on "Fire Souls" -- Leaders in Child Protection

Jim Luce, 11.09.2009

Thought Leaders and Global Citizens

Ten years ago, Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden reached the point where she could no longer witness the appalling conditions of children around the ...

Shocker! GM Cancels Opel Sale, But Why?

Steve Parker, 11.05.2009

Journalist/Broadcaster covering the auto industry and auto racing for 35 years.

Unions are all-powerful in Europe, and GM dropping the sale and the resultant job losses could wind up looking like a huge defeat for Germany and the entire EU.

Russell Ackoff, "Einstein of Problem Solving," Has Died

Steven G. Brant, 11.01.2009

Developer of sustainable local, national, and international development strategies

Russell L. Ackoff, Professor Emeritus of The Wharton School, transformed the world of problem solving just as Albert Einstein transformed he world of science.

UN Starts World's First Arms Trade Treaty: Will It Work?

Evelyn Leopold, 10.31.2009

Veteran reporter at the United Nations

The aim is to set standards for the global $55 billion export business in guns, tanks, attack helicopters, jet fighters, missiles and other conventional weapons.

Health Care Cooperatives Can Work

Steven Hill, 10.30.2009

Director, Political Reform Program, New America Foundation

Private, nonprofit health care cooperatives, properly designed, actually could offer quite a lot to both the left and the right, as well as to anyone who is interested in expanding health care coverage.

6 1/2 Years On, the U.S. Mission in Iraq has Only Just Begun

Rahim Kanani, 10.23.2009

Research Associate, Hauser Center for Nonprofits, Harvard University

There seems to be a colossal disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of the Obama Administration's strategy to withdraw troop levels in Iraq from 120,000 down to 50,000 by August 2010.

German Solar Rides Power Surge to a Win

A. Siegel, 10.16.2009

Energy, environmental blogger, getenergysmartnow.com

Starting in 2010, there will be a gradual reduction in the FIT rate for new solar installations every year (with uncertainty about exact impacts of the new government).

Unlearning the "Perfect Lessons" From History

Carol Smaldino, 10.11.2009

Psychotherapist

To admit our part in emotional and educational and political violence, through our modeling of hatred and righteousness or through our passivity, we would have to begin to turn the notion of perfectionism on its head.