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We are in the process of leisurely confusing two things: cowardice and blindness -- the fact that we didn't want to hear and the fact that nothing was said.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The fall of The Wall signified the fall of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. And while this was of enormous historical import, I fear that future generations won't really pay much attention to it.
Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
We still pursue the illusion that democracy can be imposed from without. That's not how it happened then, and it isn't how it happens now: not in the German Democratic Republic and not in Iraq or Afghanistan either.
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The House passed health care reform on Saturday night. I can't believe it's been this hard. How far has the Right (and the Left) moved to the right? Bear with me as I take you into the past.
Ana Menendez | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
I was 19 when the Berlin Wall fell. The free world cheered. But not my family.
Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
The abrupt and miserable end of the socialist experiment--it all happened so fast, with East Germany getting absorbed into West Germany on Oct. 3, 199...
GlobalPost | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
I first saw the Berlin Wall in 1971. It was then about 10 years old and was the ugliest human structure I'd ever seen: gray, brutal, pitiless, unyield...
Nathan Gardels | Posted 10.31.2009 | World
The fall of the Berlin Wall led Francis Fukuyama to famously declare "the end of history." Twenty years on, what does Fukuyama think about where history has gone since?
Reuters | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
ROME, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gave a foretaste of how he may defend himself when he goes back on trial for corrupt...
Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Style
Design is about people -- the handiwork of the creator, human ingenuity, and the social ramifications of design in use.
The New York Times | STEVEN ERLANGER | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books
The Frankfurt Book Fair, which struggled to find a balance between free speech and honoring China as its featured country, dismissed its project manag...
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Obama and his national security aides debate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
Glenn Beck is using an armed bodyguard, according to the New York Post's Page Six. The Fox News host who distrusts the government, has called Preside...
AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
MOSCOW (AP)- A Russian court ruled against Josef Stalin's grandson Tuesday in a libel suit over a newspaper article that said the Soviet dictator sent...
Raw Story | Kathleen Miller | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
The left-wing filmmaker behind a documentary that questions U.S. policy in Afghanistan says he "took a lot of grief" and lost progressive donors when ...
Jeff Stein | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
McChrystal is in for a rude awakening if he thinks he's a latter-day MacArthur, with a vast conservative following ready to rally to his side.
Morgan Warners | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
A famously hawkish supporter of Israel, New Republic editor Marty Peretz's accusations about the president mimic the message of a fringe ring-wing email that I got my hands on.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books
Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.
Robert Scheer | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
What we need is for Obama to pull a Nixon and attempt to cut a deal with Tehran as well as with competing forces in Afghanistan that meets their nationalist aspirations and our security interests.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
***UPDATE 9/22/09*** I haven't found another embeddable version yet, but sharp-eyed reader Mark points out that you can watch the video here. ***UPDA...
Penelope Andrew | Posted 09.19.2009 | Entertainment
Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg underscores a unique moment in our history when the Jewish experience crossed over into households composed of African Americans and Midwesterners, as they all listened to The Rise of the Goldbergs.
Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
UPDATE (8:43 p.m. EST): NBC has replaced this woman's comment about Muslims with a less inflammatory comment: "I'm scared to death for my country. I ...
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living
Over and over again, we see the right wing steadfastly digging their heels in before gathering, listening to and evaluating all the facts regarding going to war, education and health reform.
Ginny Dougary | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
Mikhail Gorbachev is still a man who strides the global stage -- and maintains a keen interest in domestic politics. I spoke to him about power, presidents, Putin and life after Raisa.
Johann Hari | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. But Michael Winterbottom's "adaptation" for film is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness.
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Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 11.10.2009 | World