Tom Friedman's Take On "Wimps" and "The Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys"
How are we going to compete in years to come as we go head-to-head with societies that are far better equipped to deal with the exigencies of the future?
How are we going to compete in years to come as we go head-to-head with societies that are far better equipped to deal with the exigencies of the future?
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
URUMQI, China — Security forces patrolled the street corners of Urumqi while residents voiced anger Friday, a day after thousands marched to pro...
Marjorie Cohn | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
The only woman in her University of California Berkeley law school class, Doris defied the odds throughout her life, achieving significant victories for labor, and political activists.
Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
The Chinese Communist Party is unified by one principle: to remain in power. Any organized effort, even if within the confines of the law, will be viewed as a threat to the CCP's authority.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 08.26.2009 | New York
Seeing celebrities, the Governor, Danny Glover, movie maker Al Maysles and his son Philip, and George Faison, acclaimed and beautiful actresses Marcia Gay Harden, Tamara Tunie, and Bette Midler , people who, despite their fame, live or work in Harlem, is no big thing.
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
The vast majority of Chinese believe an empowered central government guarantees individual and national gain. But this is a clear case of an evolving relationship between rulers and ruled.
BBC | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
Demonstrators in Moldova have attacked the country's parliament in protest at the victory of the governing Communist Party in Sunday's general electio...
AP | DAN PERRY | Posted 04.05.2009 | World
MOSCOW — In some of his strongest criticism of his successors, Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday likened Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to the...
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
Money, observed the witty British thinker Malcolm Muggeridge, is the homogenized form of power. No more money, no more power. The great imperialist ...
The Media Consortium | Posted 11.25.2008 | Home
NOTE: After you click a link, click the title of the item to get the full text or video. "We've got them just where we want them." With each bit of b...
Tracy Lea Carnes | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home
Canada has a form of democratic socialism yet I don't see them suddenly amassing an army and marching across the border to impose their health care system, crazy accents, and Moulson beer on us. Inflicting Celine Dion on us was enough.
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
Special for the Huffington Post By Eric Margolis October 15, 2008 Afghanistan is in a `downward spiral,' the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of S...
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
For your sake, not mine, please stop calling me a communist. It reveals that you know so little about govt. that you're forced to regurgitate GOP talking points from over a half a century ago.
Steven Hill | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
Now that its coming-out party is over, it's time for China to demonstrate that it embraces the goal of improving the plight of its countryside.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business