Birds dropping baguettes, terrorist plots and nuclear critics have all tried to derail the Large Hadron Collider, but if all goes according to plan it will be re-creating the Big Bang in no time.
Had it been a Christian or a Jew who slaughtered thirteen people in one mad frenzy, I doubt there would have been much psycho-analysis of the murderer and his motives. It was a ghastly criminal act, period.
No, American friends, France is not a country of "cheaters." The affair of Thierry Henry's hand, the scandal of the France-Ireland game that we won, but should have lost, has outraged many in Paris.
What makes civil unions at present unequal is not their separateness but the host of federal benefits conferred by marriage that even the best state domestic partnerships can't accord.
My generation lived by the idea that Europe would build itself alone, on the sly, behind our backs, without its subjects noticing. It is this illusion that is shattering.
In 1947, Tokyo Electric Cars Company built a lead-acid battery powered EV delivery truck called the Tama which it sold through 1950, when oil supplies...
Steve Schmidt now joins a host of former McCain staffers who have challenged the veracity of Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, even before it hits the streets on Tuesday.
While the technical revelations regarding the Qum nuclear enrichment facility filter out as the IAEA prepares its final report to the U.N., the U.S. is at a crossroads regarding Iran's nuclear program.
Wynton Marsalis received France’s highest distinction last week in New York – the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of Honor, an honor t...
The film gets its name from the movie's protagonist, a motherless little boy who escapes both his self-absorbed and overbearing father by playing a computer soccer game featuring Zidane.
Finland and France have declared internet access a legal right for all citizens. Here's why I hope the United States and all other countries will follow their and grant internet access as a human right.
A prominent legal expert, Mr. Geoffrey Robertson, exposed this week the false and inaccurate statements on the Armenian Genocide made by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
We headed over to the beautiful cemetery to say hey to Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and others. If the 20th Arrondissement is good enough for them, then it certainly should work for us.
Iran's refusal and counter-proposal to shipping low-enriched uranium to Russia is unacceptable. But before slamming the door on talks, two alternative arrangements still deserve consideration.
The indignant, GOP, all-government-is-bad know-nothings have swallowed the Kool-Aid. And Ronald Reagan was the guy who dressed up as a giant pitcher and convinced them do it.
While Food, Inc. uncovered the horrors of the industrial food system, Food Beware links pesticides and herbicides with cancer and other health problems.
The reality is that, even if you are a female executive at Goldman Sachs, you will never be part of the "boys' club" -- and guess what, it's still a boys' club.
Obama is in a multi-faceted complex of geopolitical crises. He is actively using military force in two of the countries, and has threatened, at the least, tough sanctions in the third.
At a time when both Russia and China are trying to readjust their diplomatic bearings with Washington, why not join the West for a while in toughening sanctions against Tehran?
The financial crisis, the biggest in living memory, has tilted the political and financial landscape in a direction that makes Tobin Taxes not just more desirable but also much easier to implement.
By counting on the Americans to protect them against a nuclear Iran, the French, the Saudis and the Israelis are avoiding assuming the responsibility for their own security.
