McCain Campaign Tried Using Assault Hoax to Slime Obama
According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.
According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.
Erik Ose | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
In the wake of McCain-Palin visits to North Carolina, a string of election season crimes have occurred around the state involving violence, vandalism, and harassment.
Chris Blake | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living
Watching a US senator and VP candidate reveal his fear before a national audience was quite a remarkable thing. In doing so, Biden provided some much-needed release for fathers.
Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living
Never mind that when John McCain smiles, it looks about as warm and inviting as a moonlit New England country graveyard. Never mind that he exhibits...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.15.2008 | Living
It feels as if Obama, a naturally cautious, deliberate adult, gives little quarter to fear and anger. He will serve as a counter-example Bush, whose entire career in office has been fueled by both.
Danny Schechter | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business
Is anyone surprised that the markets would go up after billions of dollars were "injected" into ailing markets? Think of that as an injection of penic...
Grande Lum | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living
Each reaction to a difficult person is a learning opportunity. If rage overwhelms you, then you can learn to control rage. If fear paralyzes you, then you can learn how to gain safety from that fear.
Newsweek | Daniel Gross | Posted 11.13.2008 | Living
The technology that transmits odors and fragrances digitally is still in the very early stages of development. But on Monday, Oct. 6, the whiff of fea...
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.11.2008 | Living
We need our thinking to be clear now more than ever as we go into one of the most complicated financial moments in history; we need clear heads.
Judy Muller | Posted 11.10.2008 | Home
As Barack Obama pulls ahead in the polls, his supporters are holding their collective breath, afraid to speculate on the outcome, afraid to say it out loud, lest the polling Gods curse their arrogance and spin this thing the other way.
Michael Moynihan | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business
Cross-posted at the NDN Blog. New York City -- In his classic 1841 book Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Scottish journalist Charl...
Baratunde Thurston | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
One supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man and told him, "Sit down, boy." Everything we need to know about McCain-Palin is summed up by their reaction.
Mallika Chopra | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living
A report that a man in Southern California shot his 3 kids, wife, mother in law and himself today was a shock. Apparently, he was financially distrau...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home
Ordinary people are outraged that the wealthy want to be given free money as a bailout, and at the same time they are frightened about losing their ow...
Alex Pattakos | Posted 11.01.2008 | Living
The world is full of good deeds and the opportunity to do good deeds. When we don't do them, it's often out of fear. Fear of losing something: our s...
Lance Simmens | Posted 10.26.2008 | Home
Fear versus anger, defense versus offense, past versus future, insecurity versus hope. These are the trademarks of the current decisions Americans must make in the next six weeks.
Janice Taylor | Posted 10.25.2008 | Living
Five years ago, almost to the day, after permanently removing (if you lose it; you will find it) over 50 pounds of body clutter (a.k.a. fat), decades ...
Sara Avant Stover | Posted 10.24.2008 | Living
To ensure a strong immune system through the winter months, find ways to connect and harmonize with your surroundings now. One of the best ways to do this is by eating foods that are in season.
Tara Stiles | Posted 10.21.2008 | Living
It was hard for me to even write that title. Can I actually admit I'm afraid of flying? Not me! What happened to me? I used to love to fly! Plus ...
Jennifer Lehr | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
This morning I received an e-mail that's being forwarded around written by a woman named Anne Kilkenny, a resident of Wasilla. In her letter detailing...
Roderick Spencer | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
Before it all goes blurry and fictional in the retelling, allow me to recapitulate my personal list of astonishments from Denver.
Amy Swift | Posted 10.05.2008 | Living
Making dreams a reality often feels far away--you want something, but how do you make it happen? I've learned, both in realizing my own dreams and bei...
Newsweek | Dean Ornish, M.D. | Posted 09.18.2008 | Living
Love may seem an unlikely emotion at a place like the U.S. Army War College, where generals and generals-in-training from all four branches of the mil...
Seth Swirsky | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
Americans could only consider an Obama, because of the remarkable success of President Bush, through his decisive actions, in ratcheting down the fear Americans felt for many years after 9/11.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
The imagery on the cover of the New Yorker represents the quality of conversation on race and religion in this country: mixed messages, nothing decoded.
Erik Ose | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics