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Being on the Gettysburg Battlefield, I understood service and sacrifice to one's country in a way that I have never understood it before.
Louise Mirrer | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
Had Eugene and Stanley of Brighton Beach Memoirs been living in New York during the Civil War years, they might not have thought so highly of Abraham Lincoln's principles.
Alfred Gingold | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
150 years after his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown looms ever larger in the national psyche, either a great martyr to a just and necessary cause, or our first domestic terrorist.
Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
Sometimes the body from which a political party springs is so filled with bile and corruption that its healthiest components should seek to go their own way. A case in point is today's Republican Party.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.
Dale Buscher | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
It is time to implement interventions that are tailored to the local context, that build on the refugees' existing skills, and that match local market demand.
Gerald Sindell | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
When we finally do achieve health care restructuring, I hope that some of us will take a moment to look at that powerful human preference for the status quo over anything else.
James Ross | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
Holding several hundred thousand civilians under lock and key, the government is keeping the survivors of the fighting from telling their stories to the media and human rights groups.
Robert Blair | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
While we in the international peanut gallery gape at the spectacle of the Charles Taylor trial -- a murderer defending indefensible acts -- many Liberians continue to endorse Taylor and his charismatic brutality.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama is the first president to not just accept the premise of the "having a beer" test, but to embrace it and turn it into reality.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
Yes, no black men signed the Declaration. They were consigned to the plantations of many of the men who did the signing, putting food on their tables and money in their purses.
David Quigg | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media
We all have our limits. Abraham Lincoln's limit is that he left behind no wise counsel for the man who finds himself garmentless at 30,000 feet. But he did leave something for the Twitterers.
Ronald Maxwell | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Obama, to his everlasting honor, and in keeping with the tradition of his predecessors, on Memorial Day just two weeks ago sent a wreath to Moses Ezekiel's monument to the Confederate dead.
Dave Astor | Posted 07.05.2009 | Comedy
"Four score and seven meals ago my conscience brought forth to the anti-rebel north a new diet conceived in kindness and dedicated to the proposition that all animals are created equal.
Karin Badt | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment
The intent of the movie is to show how the imminent war -- or any imminent war -- results from the sickness of a culture as well as from inherent human malice.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
'Why don't the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters, to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost?'
Douglas Alexander | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
In countries afflicted by conflict we must now add to that core mission a commitment to build peace and to build functioning states.
The Guardian | Gethin Chamberlain, David Pallister and agencies in Colombo | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
Thousands more Tamil civilians were fleeing the rapidly diminishing sliver of rebel-held land in north-east Sri Lanka today as government troops conti...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
Those on the far right can't have it both ways, calling for revolution and secession on the one hand, while protesting a report raising concerns about right wing extremist violence on the other.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
What is most frustrating about the Mexican drug war chaos is figuring out the truth about whether all that drug violence is moving across the borders.
AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.11.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — For nearly 150 years, a story has circulated about a hidden Civil War message engraved inside Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch. On Tu...
Roger I. Abrams | Posted 04.05.2009 | Entertainment
Sport can bring out the best, but also the worst in mankind.
Benjamin Bronfman | Posted 04.03.2009 | World
Even as the Sri Lankan conflict seems to be drawing to a close, the government, which has a long history of abducting Tamil civilians and suppressing information, has increased its security forces in the capitol.
Al Jazeera | Posted 03.26.2009 | World
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger fighters have announced that they are ready to comply with international calls for a ceasefire, but they would not lay down t...
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Kate Kelly | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics