Unesco World Heritage status, that coveted prize of global cultural tourism, has become a popular pursuit for Chinese officials.
BBC | Posted 01.04.2009 | Style
From the BBC Pole dancing robots, a giant 3D animated face and a customised MIG jet are among artworks on display at the MuTate London exhibition. ...
Lea Lane | Posted 12.31.2008 | Style
Over several decades I've traveled to more than a hundred countries, often alone. Many of them were challenging and so-called third world, but I've gotten through incipient coups and typhoons without major incident.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
This month, "We shall overcome" overcame "I shall overindulge" as the meaning of the Sixties.
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
At some point, maybe science had something to do with it, maybe folks just came to their senses, there was a liberating change. The "handedness" issue became irrelevant.
Danny Groner | Posted 12.20.2008 | Living
Gladwell discusses the factors that helped some of the most successful people achieve what they have. He posits that nurture matters exceedingly more than nature.
Grande Lum | Posted 12.11.2008 | Living
If you are already scratching your head about the other person before you've even engaged with them, then you are missing something.
Michael Shaw | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics
Take a look at the Cobb County, Georgia police department's latest toy. Donated by the military, the Armored Personnel Carrier -- used by the U.S. Army in Panama -- holds up to nine SWAT commandos.
Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Prop. 8 passed, after Obama's speech. It was a bitter pill for progressives to swallow and a reminder that no matter who is president the public faces many significant issues on its own.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 12.08.2008 | Living
My world is so small that I even have a hard time relating to people who don't like some of my favorite movies or TV shows. How can we be friends if we don't even laugh at the same jokes?
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 12.05.2008 | Entertainment
If the Democrats have a monopoly on the presidency and Congress, they'll be evaluated in 2010. That would be valid if, when the Republicans left office, they took their mistakes with them.
The Uptake | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home
Rep. Michele Bachmann caught the national spotlight recently when she told MSNBC's Chris Mathews that Barack Obama "may have anti-American views....
Robert Brustein | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
The Candidate appears on Fox before three weird blonde anchors, Greta Van Sustren, Rita Cosby, Anne Coulter. They chant, "All Hail McCain, Thane of Arizona, that shall be President hereafter."
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 11.09.2008 | Living
The mood in the sanctuary began to sour. By the tenth "Pffffffffff," our congregation, so recently a bastion of uplift and redemption, deteriorated into a hostile, hungry mob.
Margee Ensign | Posted 11.08.2008 | Living
Unfortunately, Sarah Palin is not alone in her global ignorance. Our colleges and high schools are not doing what's necessary... the current generation isn't gaining understanding of other cultures.
Andrew Belonsky | Posted 10.26.2008 | Entertainment
Aiken's outing is different in two notable, intrinsically entwined ways.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 10.25.2008 | Style
Nowhere in the Western world are we raising a generation of men who pride themselves on their restraint and respect toward women. It's a man's world. Women just live in it.
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home
The Democratic and Republican national conventions offer a crash course in how each party uses language. When Republicans say "ordinary," it's not an insult.
Doreen Orion | Posted 10.05.2008 | Style
As I close in on fifty, I've made a shocking discovery: I just don't care. I'm learning that there is so much that is surprisingly, gloriously, wondrously liberating about the half-century mark.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 09.20.2008 | Living
How do male and female friendships differ from one another?
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business
When 500,000 foreign visitors descend on Beijing during the Olympics, they will experience a kaleidoscope of contrasts -- some maddening, others glorious -- that disorient and confuse.
Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
Many Americans realize that destroying environmental resources to allow more domestic drilling is a psychological panacea -- a placebo to make us feel like "something is being done."
Roberto Lovato | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
"Recreate 68" sounds more like something more appropriate for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunion concert than for a movement of our troubled times.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Living
Observing large-scale technological phenomena informs us about where the culture's at these days; Twitter might indicate that people are lonely.
Christine Hassler | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living
Baby-boomers did not grow up with messages like "work should be fun" and "be passionate about your career." To them, a job is a job.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 01.13.2009 | World