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.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Going into tonight's big speech, the question is this: Is the relationship between Obama and the progressive community broken or just bent?
Erica Jong | Posted 11.08.2009 | New York
Bring back the old exchanges -- and let's invent some new ones while we're at it. Let's name them after NY writers. GInsberg for the East Village. And WH for the West Village (after Auden).
Peter Schwartz | Posted 09.19.2009 | Books
Nixonland reads like nothing more than an undergraduate thesis. It is sprawling, poorly written, and ham-handed analytically.
Todd Kashdan | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
If we rely on categories, labels, rules, and what other people say and do, we will miss out on the rich complexity of life. We will make less optimal decisions. We will be less creative and less productive, and feel less autonomous.
Ajay Singh Chaudhary | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
In Iran, these periods of quiet should not be interpreted as meaning that this movement has died off or that aspirations have folded.
Paul Mecurio | Posted 09.14.2009 | Comedy
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
Recall that the Reverend Wright debacle necessitated a solution that only Obama could create. It is the same thing now.
Terrence McNally | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
In his new book, The Evolution of God, Robert Wright follows God's changing moods in ancient scripture, to see what circumstances brought out the best and worst in religions.
Alex Higgins | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
There is a distinct lack of enthusiasm for attempting to govern other parts of the world by force, let alone envy of the global superpower.
Christina Patterson | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment
Clive James is a brilliant bunch of questions, a brilliant bunch of answers, and soliloquies and theories and counter-theories. No need for an interviewer, really, except that I'm here and I'd quite like to do it.
Bill Cunningham | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media
Walter Cronkite and Frank McCourt taught us the power of words, simple and direct, and a story well told. Let us hope that their passing is not the end of such grace and literacy.
Sheryl McCarthy | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York
I bet few New Yorkers know about the role that the hideous institution of slavery played in shaping the city physically, financially and socially.
Mike Lux | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
What bothers these conservatives so much is the idea that progressive values are at the heart of the American ideal.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
As the nation approaches its celebration of Independence and the ideals of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," it is crucial to remember that with those rights comes responsibility.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living
One of the "Forgotten Founders" is James Wilson, whose contributions to the creation of the United States of America were obscured by his later disgrace.
Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
Let's ensure that history does not remember us just as "consumers" of the earth and its resources, but as people who take seriously the God-given mandate to "serve and preserve" the earth.
AP | MARTA FALCONI | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — Officials on Tuesday unveiled a replica of a 1530 parchment sent by members of England's House of Lords to Pope Clement VII to su...
Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
Check out this video, produced by Dent Asset Management, that posits this recession is no different from the many others America has experienced over ...
Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment
McKennitt was shocked when she was invited to perform in Istanbul in 1996, which is when she first discovered her extensive fan base in the Middle East.
AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
STOCKHOLM — After a decade-long search, a team of Baltic Sea divers has discovered the wreckage of a Soviet submarine that sank with dozens of s...
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
In twenty years, will the iconic image of Tiananmen Square be in Chinese textbooks? Will the iconic image of Abu Ghraib be in ours?
Mike Lux | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics