Celebrating Berlin While Enabling Israel's Apartheid Wall
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall highlights both the inherent thirst for freedom and proclivity to hypocrisy ingrained in the human condition.
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall highlights both the inherent thirst for freedom and proclivity to hypocrisy ingrained in the human condition.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books
The women in When Everything Changed are gutsy, goal-setting, game-changing, God-chatting, family-loving individuals who share a belief in Change - and an enduring, if irrational love of sexy shoes.
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
When you massively intervene in a country as much as the U.S. has in Afghanistan, you can't responsibly just walk away. We must lead with what works -- development.
Newsweek | Anna Quindlen | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics
History will judge Barack Obama over the long haul. But we've learned something in the short term that is simple, obvious, and has less to do with him...
Los Angeles Times | Joe Mozingo | Posted 10.25.2009 | Entertainment
An extensive review of several thousand court documents, as well as numerous interviews, shows a basic dynamic defining the entire saga -- one force t...
David Segal | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
In Rhode Island, it was left-leaning patriots, in the form of labor activists, immigrants, and suffragists, who propelled Rhode Island towards the ratification of its constitution in 1842.
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.
Gangaji | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Either we fight it as it is appearing, or we mourn for it as it passes us by, but we are hardly ever at peace with change.
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.
Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
It is as well that Christopher Columbus was so sure of himself, because he was in many respects staggeringly incompetent. The very basis of his journey to the New World was a miscalculation.
Dagobert L. Brito | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
Through a combination of wise leadership and some fortunate historical accidents, the problems stemming from the Mexican Revolution in the 20th Century were solved with only limited American intervention.
Azam Nizamuddin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books
Given that we reside in one of the most literate societies in history, it is our task to expose all myths for what they are, whether they relate to Christopher Columbus or to the origins of a sitting U.S. President.
Washington Post | Joel Achenbach | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
One day in 1791, President George Washington received a bill for 60 pounds, 1 shilling and 7 pence from his physician friend James Craik, who regularl...
Carol Smaldino | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics
To admit our part in emotional and educational and political violence, through our modeling of hatred and righteousness or through our passivity, we would have to begin to turn the notion of perfectionism on its head.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.
The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books
It's official: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (John Macrae Books, Henry Holt & Co.) is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2009. Yes, this is a time fo...
Lise Waring | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver
At least five banks have been robbed since April, the most recent on Sept. 22. The banks all lie a few hours south of Telluride. The news would, no doubt, have made Butch Cassidy proud.
Lance Simmens | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
The fact that Eisenhower and Khrushchev could meet and share ideas speaks volumes to the need to reach out to the world community to solve what sometimes seem to be intractable problems.
Levi Novey | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
I suspect those who only watch the first few episodes will be teetering on the edge of boredom. Those who stay around longer, or just cherry-pick an episode to watch among the later ones will end up much more excited and satisfied.
Lauri Lyons | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Scott Kurashige | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
David Brooks is a very clever and gifted writer. But his latest piece repudiating the role of race in the vitriolic backlash against Obama just doesn't pass muster.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
For health reform to work, you have to restructure the current system so that there is a significant check on the industry's power. President Obama understands this. Too many of those working for him don't.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Joe Wilson's thuggishness on Wednesday night and the conservative movement's embrace of his action yesterday are just the latest examples of Calhoun Conservatism.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The importance of Ted Kennedy's letter and goes far beyond sentimentality. The letter was a handoff, and in his speech Obama seemed to accept the baton.
Richard Laermer | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment
Buzzing about others is one of those immutable truisms of the human condition: people gossip for the sake of gossiping. Today, gossip is the province of shouters on the Web.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 11.11.2009 | World