Would You Want To Live To Be 100?
Can you imagine yourself as a really, really old person? I'm talking really old, like 100 years or beyond? In fact it's not only possible you could ...
Can you imagine yourself as a really, really old person? I'm talking really old, like 100 years or beyond? In fact it's not only possible you could ...
Janice Taylor | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
A young hippie-dippy minister, God bless him, and his wife move to town in the same time-vortex as we do. And he is Hell-bent on getting to Woodstock.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
By creating manageable confrontations with Europe, the U.S, and former Soviet states, the Kremlin is attempting to govern outwardly, diminishing pressures for greater domestic accountability.
Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business
European bank losses were as high as the U.S. They used the same compensation system, and their fragmented and ineffective regulatory system shares responsibility for the crisis.
James Boyce | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business
Last fall, I wrote a piece for the Huffington Post called "The Darwin Depression" which focused on how the end of cheap capital was going to force man...
Frank Naif | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is pressing the UK to protect US detention and torture secrets, but British courts may have the last word as two major torture cases move ahead.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
John Bolton told Jon Stewart he wanted America to be the only nation with nuclear weapons. Stewart is the comedian, but this policy is the joke.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
For a 21st century relationship, this looks increasingly like a 19th century marriage, one of convenience and necessity rather than love and affection.
Bill Chameides | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green
Apparently the National Review, none too pleased about climate legislation rattling around Congress, has joined the "global cooling brigade."
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces raided a camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group north of Baghdad on Tuesday in a move that ran contrary to U...
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
The grotesque level of corruption in both Russia and Venezuela should stimulate the discussion as to whether their predatory natures constitute not only an international crime, but also a breach of fundamental human rights.
cnn.com | Posted 08.23.2009 | New York
A New York man who pleaded guilty in January to charges of aiding al Qaeda was ready to be a suicide bomber for the organization, but was told he nee...
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
Want to know how to win a culture war? Don't fight one.
Akbar Ahmed | Posted 08.20.2009 | Style
While grappling for ideas for a book on American identity I've been trying to figure out what actually defines an American.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.18.2009 | Home
On "Real Time" Friday Bill Maher went on a diatribe about how the reason America mourned Michael Jackson so intensely--or as Maher put, lost its "coll...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 08.18.2009 | World
MUMBAI, India — Off the injured list and back on the world stage, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday gave an impassioned...
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
What can be said about a kleptocratic country with no rule of law, where women are shot dead, young promising lawyers slain and the rest cowed into submission by fear?
Robert Koehler | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
If we envision a nuclear-free world, the agreement reached by Medvedev and Obama to reduce their nations' nuclear arsenals to 1,500 warheads can easily seem minimalist in the extreme.
Janice Taylor | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
We human beings are pretty crude creatures. We want more, more, more. We have insatiable appetites. We do everything in excess, in both our personal and collective lives.
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 08.15.2009 | World
China's deputy U.N. ambassador has made clear that Beijing, a major trading partner of Burma, would not use its influence to bring about any major change in the isolated southeast Asian nation.
Dan Persons | Posted 08.14.2009 | Entertainment
In a new political comedy based on an award-winning BBC sitcom, Gandolfini plays a Pentagon General whose instincts for survival are maybe too finely honed. It's political vitriol in the grand, British tradition.
Banning Garrett | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green
In Denmark, there will be only one meaningful question asked: will the US and China come together to make meaningful concessions to reduce their environmental footprints?
Rob Warmowski | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
Why now? Why did the House allow hundreds of dubious, abusive Bush signing statements in eight years without such an amendment, but can find its courage and love of accountability today?
Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
Krauthammer wants Russia to build more nuclear weapons. Why? Because he thinks we can shoot them out of the sky like clay pigeons. This is simply not true.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
Washington showed up, laid its cards on the table, and treated Russia very seriously. Now the ball is in Kremlin's court to do the same.
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living