Without a doubt, eBay occupies prime virtual real estate in our digital malls. Out in the real world, malls do not allow the KKK and neo-Nazis to rent space and pedal hate.
Kuperman doesn't see Iranians responding to the bombing of their homeland by taking to the streets and chanting "Death to the Great Satan!" He sees grateful yokels yelling "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"
Whether or not the green aspirations of regular Iranian citizens will be met, to me they have helped resurrect the identity of a nation, or at the very least, repaint it in a different hue.
The biggest news coming out of Copenhagen, but not covered by the American media, is that Obama hasn't been able to convince other countries to act even though he is the most popular head of state.
Time for my annual tradition of getting gifts for my favorite -- and not so favorite -- public figures, including Larry Summers whom I'm getting a Goldman Sachs pension (after all, he's earned it). READ MORE Newsmakers Roasting on an Open Fire: Your Gift Ideas for 2009's Naughty and Nice Here are your gift suggestions, including a GPS for Barack Obama, to show him the way from Wall Street to Main Street (submitted by manx). READ MORE The Senate Health Care Bill: Leave No Special Interest Behind There are many reasons for hoping the Senate health care bill doesn't become the law of the land. But the biggest reason of all is the desperate need for a DC pattern interrupt. READ MORE
More than a decade ago, President Clinton pledged that every person in America would soon be able to go online "to order up every movie ever produced or every symphony ever created in a minute's time."
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri's opinion was characterized by one Iranian Christian clergyman as "rubbing salt into our wounds."
Iranians mourn the passing of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who died this week. It was his voice of support for the people that gave a few other power players the courage to speak up too.
Today, old hatreds are being repackaged and supersized in a way that would have made Josef Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Hate, drool with envy.
It's as predictable as day follows night. Raise the issue of Iran's nuclear program, as I have more than once, and all Tehran's flacks and flunkies, ...
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: End of START and A New Beginning for Disarmament SI Analysis: An agreement on a follow-up treaty to the 1...
In an unprecedented show of support for women's rights, Iranian men have posted photos of themselves wearing the head covering typically worn by Muslim women.
A group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army briefly hacked the social messaging service Twitter last night, frustrating the efforts of narcissists to share their most mundane and banal thoughts.
Sanctions, the coercive weapon of choice in the international arena, vary in effectiveness. While they are never ideal, Iran may give us no alternative.
Looking beyond Ben Bernanke's merits as an effective chairman, there are three reasons why this was a poor selection on Time's part.
Will the US strip Credit Suisse of their charter to do business in the US? Of course not. We live in the wild, wild west. If you pay a fine, you can jump right back into screwing people over again.
The Iranian government has announced that they will try the three American citizens who strayed into Iran in late July. How can the U.S. help free them?
If you're anything like me -- living in this mad, mad world of information overload -- it may be difficult to look back at 2009 and remember the big news stories that defined this year.
When it comes to sanctions, bigger is not always better. If Washington wants to do something on Iran, it should first stop helping the Ahmadinejad government repress its people.
If we are forced by Iran's realization of its nuclear ambitions to take military action against Iran at a time not of our choosing, we will have no one to blame but ourselves.
If Iran offers to swap its low-enriched uranium for higher grade uranium, does the US have the right to dismiss it because it doesn't meet our conditions?
