Is There A Feminine Way of Doing Business?

Lotta Alsen, 11.04.2009

We have a different rationale for starting a business. And because we are different, we also bring in new perspectives.

The Writer-in-Chief

Steve Ross, 11.03.2009

Former President, Collins Division at HarperCollins and Sr. VP, Crown Division at Random House

Dreams from My Father had received a few impressive blurbs and favorable reviews, but had sold only a few thousand copies, so had been out of print for years.

Why I Hate the New York Yankees

Lee Schneider, 10.23.2009

Founder of DocuCinema, a media production company in Santa Monica

I'm going to lie down on a psychoanalyst's couch, preferably one made of soft baseball glove leather, and sort out my Yankee feelings. Hand me that baseball autographed by Sandy Koufax, will you?

Hope for Latin America: Obama's Nobel

Ariel Dorfman, 10.20.2009

Author

There are the real wars to win in Latin America. Against poverty and tyranny, against ecological depredation and the marginalization of the indigenous peoples and their wisdom.

The Big Dollar Bustout ... Is Too Big To Fail Still an Option?

Eric Ehrmann, 10.19.2009

Writes on sports and global issues from Brazil; a member of PEN

With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.

The Last Poet To Win The Nobel Prize

John Lundberg, 10.16.2009

John Lundberg has been writing and teaching poetry for the last ten years. He is a recent Wallace S ...

I've been trying to track down English translations of poems by Herta Muller, the newest Nobel Laureate in Literature, but they are awfully hard to come by (if they even exist).

Obama Has Earned the Nobel

José Ramos-Horta, 10.19.2009

President of East Timor

By giving hope to the millions of disfranchised, the poor and the angry in Middle East, Asia and Africa, Obama has begun to drain the swamp in which extremist groups operate and recruit.

Friday Talking Points [98] -- Newsiness

Chris Weigant, 10.18.2009

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

I have to admit before I begin that I don't watch cable television "news" during the day, because I consider it largely to be a waste of my valuable t...

Agent Orange in Vietnam: Ignoring the Crimes Before Our Eyes

Dave Lindorff, 10.16.2009

Veteran investigative journalist

Missing from a recent Times article on American victims of Agent Orange, was a single mention of the far larger number of victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam: the Vietnamese.

Video: Bill Clinton Reacts to Obama Nobel Prize

Julia Gorin, 10.16.2009

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A Nobel Prize for Sharing the Commons and Avoiding the Tragedy of Copenhagen

Mike Sandler, 10.16.2009

Co-founder of the Climate Protection Campaign based in Sonoma County, California

Elinor Ostrom's work won her the Nobel Prize in Economics but it could have significant impact on the environment, if applied to fisheries, groundwater, the ozone layer, public forests and oceans.

Women Make Nobel History

Madeleine M. Kunin, 10.15.2009

First Female Governor of Vermont; Marsh Scholar, University of Vermont

For the first time ever, three women won top science prizes and we saw the first woman in Nobel history awarded the economics prize. Girls are now just as good at math as the boys.

The Nobel Prize: A Tool For Shifting Consciousness?

Dr. Judith Rich, 10.14.2009

Speaker* Writer* Trainer* Performance Consultant* Rx For The Soul *www.judithrich.com

Now that just about the entire world has weighed in on whether or not President Obama deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the fact remains: he was awarded the prize.

Why Ostrom's Nobel Is Even More Shocking Than Obama's

Randall Amster, 10.14.2009

Peace educator, author, and activist

Make no mistake, despite the somewhat tame Nobel committee description, Ostrom's body of work is inherently radical, demonstrably anti-corporate, and implicitly socialistic.

Prizing Peace

Gangaji, 10.14.2009

Author, DIAMOND IN YOUR POCKET

The emanation of peace by any one person is a boon to us all. When that person is the leader of the most powerful and sometimes the most dangerous nation in the world, that boon is magnified exponentially.

We Cannot Let Fear Turn Into Hate: Iran's Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Speaks

Kiri Westby, 10.14.2009

Change-Maker/Rule-Breaker/Story-Teller

Last Friday I went to hear a keynote address from Iran's only Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi. I was blown away.

Exit Ghost, Enter Roth: A Review of The Humbling

Anna Dubenko, 10.14.2009

English PhD Student, Yale University

In The Humbling's three fantastic acts, the reader is thrown into a dramatic maelstrom, which has but one Chekovian outcome and raises many novel questions.

Obama Goes to Oslo: The Quiz

Michael Kubin, 10.13.2009

Media Entrepreneur

What will President Obama say in his Nobel Peace Prize lecture? Eleven possible quibbles, questions and quotations: you decide.

Mr. Obama's Prize

Christian Nwachukwu, Jr., 10.13.2009

Editor and researcher

"Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position," reported the Nobel Committee.

On Obama's Noble Peace Prize: Missed Peace Opportunities in the Mideast

Aladdin Elaasar, 10.12.2009

Author, The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak and the Uncertain Future of Egypt in the Obama Age

Obama has gained a great deal of popularity in and outside the U.S.. If he was to run for President elsewhere beyond the States, people would replace their old rulers with him in a heartbeat.

Her? Oh, That's Just Crazy Old Aunt Peg

Ellis Weiner, 10.12.2009

Author, Adventurer, Fortune's Fool

According to Peggy Noonan, Reagan deserved a Nobel because he failed to waste a fortune on a boondoggle that would have made the world less safe. That he failed to win it was "absurd."