Eve Blossom | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business
While the conversations between panelists at the Aspen Ideas Festival last week were compelling, there was one glaring absence: the female perspective.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
Sovereign Immunity has its roots in old English law postulating that neither the sovereign nor the sovereign state can commit a legal wrong. It is an anachronism of another time and poses a great danger to our security.
Politico | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
Today at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Andrew Sullivan discussed his blogging past, present and future before a packed lunchtime crowd and it was Sullivan...
Blaise Zerega | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
As the rhetoric escalates over President Obama's nomination of judge Sonia Sotomayor, the confirmation process promises to reveal both the good and ba...
Alison Teal | Posted 09.14.2008 | Living
When the rest of the country is having conversations about the Olympics or Rielle Hunter, Aspenites are screaming about the rebirth of Russian national aspiration in its most ugly form.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Clinton is best on offense: having to defend HRC was just not his shining moment. Let's not throw Bill's bountiful baby out with his murky bathwater.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was one of the many influential people to appear at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Jeffrey Goldberg con...
Michael Conniff | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
Something has happened to Thomas Friedman: he has started to believe his own bullsh*t. A fatal flaw has crept into Friedman's reporting that borders on journalistic megalomania.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Bill Clinton appeared yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, addressing "a panoply of world issues from climate change and alternative energy to food ...
Jessica Catto | Posted 07.13.2008 | Green
What we know for certain is that if we are not actively involved in our future, our future may not happen. Democracy imposes this responsibility on us. Are we up for the challenge?
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green
At the Aspen Ideas Festival Thursday, New York Times columnist and The World Is Flat author Thomas Friedman gave a preview of his new book, Hot, Flat,...
Lynda Resnick | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
Perhaps we need a benevolent dictator, not a president. No, that won't work... so how do we solve our problems? By attending festivals of ideas in Aspen and returning home charged with a new spirit of change.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business
In an interview with Charlie Rose, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, in his engaging way, asked his audience a seemingly innocuous question: "Who among you is upset with $4 plus gasoline?"
Blaise Zerega | Posted 08.23.2009 | Comedy