Getting the Vietnam Analogy Right in Afghanistan
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.
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.
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.
Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
This Yom Kippur there is reason for concern. The politics of rumor, innuendo, and lies -- sinat chinam -- is on the rise in our community and it hurts us all.
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 09.29.2009 | Impact
The threat to our world's stability comes from a collective expression of greed, embodied by global corporations, which put profit before integrity. Will you do something about it?
Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
World conquest was a pipe dream for Hitler, but Buchanan's whitewashing is an unconscionable distortion of the truth. Why did Hitler invade Poland? Easy. Because it was there.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.22.2009 | Media
Time's cover is the beginning of a rehab job for Glenn Beck. The magazine is trying once again to make it okay for people to sponsor this "person".
POLITICO | Andie Coller | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
Joe Wilson's outburst Wednesday night earned more than a personal rebuke from the president and a dagger-eyed gasp from the speaker of the House; it d...
Time | TRISTANA MOORE / BERLIN | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Germany's latest AIDS-awareness commercial evokes some strong emotions: shock, disgust, nausea. And that's exactly the point. The controversial ad, wh...
Aaron Keyak | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
You might think that Buchanan would have stopped using this sort of unrepentant rhetoric as his career moved from a Republican firebrand to a to cable news commentator -- but you'd be wrong.
Aemilia Scott | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago
I attended Jan Schakowsky's Town Hall in Skokie, Illinois Monday. All the anti-healthcare reform people want is for you to let them speak! Okay, we'll let them speak.
AP | RYAN LUCAS and DAVID RISING | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
GDANSK, Poland — On a wind-swept peninsula where shells lobbed from a German battleship ignited World War II 70 years ago, European leaders vowe...
Alex Storozynski | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment
The Swedish band Sabaton has written a thunderous guitar song "40-1" that has young Polish head bangers jumping into mosh pits, and Polish war-veterans weepy eyed.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
In Cairo, President Obama rightly said that the U.S. should not be in the business of imposing democracy, but can we be indifferent to those who seek to embrace it?
Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment
Tarantino knows how to build up the suspense and how to let it go.
Jim Lichtman | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
Apparently, executives at Fox do not know the difference between opinion and hate speech.
Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Dear God. This is the way America is now. Some conservative radio host stages a "town hall" meeting in Las Vegas. The local news reports that it "w...
Deutsche Welle | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
The number of right-wing extremist websites in Germany is rising, with a group charged with youth protection warning that the internet has become the ...
AP | Posted 09.13.2009 | World
LONDON (AP) -- More than 80 years after it was first published --and later outlawed-- in Germany, a signed copy of Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto "...
The Independent | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
Tony Paterson | The Independent Germany's Central Council of Jews has taken the unprecedented step of backing a proposal to republish Adolf Hitler's ...
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Right-wing extremists and corporate propagandists are once again trying to incite the dread of collective retraumatization in their attempt to obstruct President Obama's plan for health-care reform.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Comedy
The viral wave from Dave Carroll's YouTube video "United Breaks Guitars" is not complete without yet another re-edit of Hitler losing it from the movie "Downfall."
Haaretz | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered diplomats to use an old photograph of a former Palestinian religious leader meeting Adolf Hitler to cou...
Dean Becker | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Today's "compassionate" drug warriors have fractured the futures and pulverized the possibilities of more than 37,000,000 US citizens.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
A Romanian man and his son upset Jewish and pro-democracy groups after donning World War II German uniforms and goose-stepping at a local fashion show...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
German prosecutors are investigating the legality of a garden gnome sculpture that recently went on display in a Nuremberg art gallery that is quite c...
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.21.2009 | World