The recent HBO movie Grey Gardens has been justly praised for its depiction of the squalid lives of "Big Edie" Beale and her daughter, "Little Edie," ...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
We stand justified in asking our leaders to hold America to a higher standard -- to probe the decisions and decision-makers who led us to that darkened cell with its waterboards and bug boxes.
Jamie Stiehm | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
By seizing an estate once connected to George and Martha Washington, Lincoln made the point that Lee was nothing but a traitor to the government he had served as a career Army general.
Manisha Sinha | Posted 02.28.2009 | World
In his inaugural address, President Obama called on Americans and those outside America to be citizens of the world. It was a fundamentally new approach to global citizenship.
Steve Parker | Posted 02.17.2009 | Business
I never liked the look of the Bush limo. It was too massive and appeared to be a truck that had started out as a tank. Obama's new limo looks more like an actual car, albeit a very big and heavy one.
Stanton Peele | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics
Bush preserves his self-confidence by shutting out other points of view. Obama's openness is possible, on the other hand, because of his genuine self-confidence.
Louise Mirrer | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
But what does "American greatness" require of us? View of the Yosemite Valley offers at least two answers.
AP | Posted 01.29.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A "Happy 200th Birthday" card is tough to find. But that's just what the Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission i...
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
Barack is ready to rumble, in the face of a White House that is AWOL. As the mind-deficient media has groused with impunity about inessentials, Barack...
Tom Alderman | Posted 12.07.2008 | Media
For news junkies, the fun has just begun. There's an administration to cast, speculation about post-election deals, mergers and maneuvers. And how about the people who deliver the news?
Robert Loerzel | Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago
Obama's eloquent election-night speech in Grant Park is surely one of the great moments in Chicago history.
Lanny Davis | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
The 2008 election presents another appropriate time when bipartisan unity government is needed more than ever.
Steve Parker | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business
Obama has consistently shown his support for an American car-making industry, a modern and green industry able to build the kinds of cars and trucks people will want to buy.
Russell Bishop | Posted 12.04.2008 | Living
By the time the votes are tabulated and our choice for President is confirmed, we will find ourselves standing at a critical fork in the road, one tha...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
Wanting to change the world is different from having to. The latter is what's expected of Barack Obama if he's elected. The huge crowds he keeps att...
Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 11.30.2008 | Green
Neil Young currently drives a 1982 Mercedes coupe diesel that runs on vegetable oil he buys from a restaurants, but that's just a "band aid", accordi...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
Obama is our last best chance. He's worth laying it all on the line for. I say this as a former life-long Republican. I say this as the proud father of a Marine.
Steve Parker | Posted 11.02.2008 | Business
They say "start out bad news with a joke," so: In Peter Gent's "North Dallas Forty," a football coach is talking with the team owner's son about his f...
Robert Mackey | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics
We have 98 other senators who can work on a solution to the current crisis. So, Senator McCain, please calm down and get back on the campaign trail. This isn't "your" crisis to deal with.
Emily Pease | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home
John McCain is running on the "maverick" label, but what does that mean? Is it a "my way or the highway" proposition? Governing involves reining in the mavericks of the world before they run amok.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
Don't buy into the media narrative that this is some sort of "divided party" -- because today's Democrats aren't. All true Democrats are pulling hard to defeat the legacy of George W. Bush.
Karen Salmansohn | Posted 09.22.2008 | Living
Lincoln was not a lucky guy. At age seven, he was forced to make money for his family. At nine, his mother passed, forcing him to work even harder. ...
Steve Parker | Posted 08.13.2008 | Style
Whoever wins the upcoming election will apparently ride to the White House in a brand-new whip, with rear-wheel (or even all-wheel) drive and a marine-cooled diesel engine.
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
Putting Obama at the center of a team of rivals, all of them familiar, even venerable, pieces of political furniture would dampen the he's-not-one-of-us factor that is still his greatest danger.
Wall Street Journal | Mike Spector | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Touting a hydrogen-powered Chevrolet, a Lincoln with a super-efficient gasoline engine and a hybrid Dodge, car makers plan to use the Los Angeles auto...
Charles Lachman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Style