This holiday season, my wish for you and your loved ones is to be filled with the same sense of hope that my family and friends are.
Tanene Allison | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment
The movie is based on a certain, now almost eerie, fluidness of time, while at the same time being about a distinctly specific time -- merging lines between now and then or here and there.
Mary Lou Song | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living
When does life begin? I don't know. But I do know that we shouldn't turn our backs on the people who desperately need cures to their diseases; the people who are with us, right here and right now.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics
This Thanksgiving we have a new brilliant, exemplary father and husband for our President-elect because millions of Americans did not vote along traditional party lines.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 12.14.2008 | Living
I feel the Republicans' pain. I've been there. We all have And I remember it well. Not only the sour taste of defeat, but the desperation of despair.
Tanene Allison | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
As the community grieves and seeks to blame whomever we felt did not support us enough, data interpretations may make it all too easy to generalize and stereotype on the road to blame.
Tabby Biddle | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics
Can we also stay hopeful in the midst of market meltdown and the calamity of being amidst two economically and emotionally draining wars?
Ray Hanania | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
Obama's election as president has changed America and can also make it a far better nation, one that truly embraces the ideals that motivated our founding fathers.
Joyce McFadden | Posted 12.09.2008 | Living
Obama inspired our country by realizing that we need in our country the very same thing we need in our personal lives: to use the better part of hope and fear together.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Best of all was the surge of hope -- to feed a starving country. As if Obama took a fresh batch of cookies out of the oven, and the scent floated all over the world, impossible to resist.
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 12.07.2008 | Home
The reason I voted for Obama had little to do with the candidate and everything to do with the crowd.
Nancy Chuda | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
President Obama will build that bridge everywhere he goes -- he will connect, one person to another --giving them the ability to leap from faith to future.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
Posted on Alternet, Nov. 6. 2008 Barack Obama's resounding victory has brought even this cynical observer of Democratic Party politics to dare to hop...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
No matter what your name or race is you can make it here. America is for real. The hope is real.
Sasha Abramsky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
The tears running down my face last night and this morning were of something so much more than happiness, so much more than simple relief. They were an exhalation.
Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Obama is our country's better nature: A blend of the best of our world's cultures, Made real as a divine gift, so that we each better remember who we are, and what we can yet become.
Rusel DeMaria | Posted 12.06.2008 | Home
I've arrived at the edge of a desert of despair, the tears forced upon me by a message of hope. For the first time, I've seen the American promise f...
Rob Kall | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Looking at the faces of the people in the crowd, as Obama gives his first speech as president-elect, I see a hope that beams bright, a hope that does not stop at red or blue state borders.
Vicky Ward | Posted 12.05.2008 | Style
If you weren't in Times Square tonight, the only place to be was downtown in the West Village at Gavin Brown's gallery for an installation by Jonathon Horowitz called Obama '08.
David Weinberger | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
The hope Obama offers is that we can get past the knee-jerk positions that are used to test the loyalty of the faithful.
Marc Cooper | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home
Hope, says the dictionary, is about our desires. Faith, on the other hand, is about confidence. I've got tons of the former, and damn near none of the latter. So if Obama offers hope, I'll take what I can get.
Susie Hoeller | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home
My friends, a couple and their two young girls, and I drove from Arkansas, two hours north to Springfield, Missouri for the Obama rally held Saturday ...
Dale Pendell | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
I had been dreaming politics -- action committees, meetings, proposals. I too have succumbed to the Great Hope.
Paula Gordon | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
I revisited Barack Obama's speech on the subject of race in the United States last night. Yes, I was sorely in need of an effective antidote to Repub...
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business
Unquestioned faith in the old order produces shock and panic as one pillar after another crumbles and falls. So it is with cursedly interesting times.
Liane Weintraub | Posted 01.02.2009 | Living