Will Coal Power Plants be the Berlin Wall of the Future?
At the Brandenburg gate, which once sat in "no-man's land" between East and West Berlin, I wondered if, 20 years from now, abandoned coal power plants will be nothing more than museums.
At the Brandenburg gate, which once sat in "no-man's land" between East and West Berlin, I wondered if, 20 years from now, abandoned coal power plants will be nothing more than museums.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 12.28.2009 | Living
Without a doubt, eBay occupies prime virtual real estate in our digital malls. Out in the real world, malls do not allow the KKK and neo-Nazis to rent space and pedal hate.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 12.21.2009 | World
Today, old hatreds are being repackaged and supersized in a way that would have made Josef Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Hate, drool with envy.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics
Finally, Republicans have memorialized their flat-earth style of politics by demanding that their candidates stop thinking and swear a purity oath. Regardless of whether it's dumb luck at work here, Obama should be grateful.
Jenny Block | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics
In television and film they call it jumping the shark. In real life we generally call it ridiculous. In this case the only word is appalling. On second thought, disgusting fits too.
AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 12.02.2009 | World
MUNICH — The trial of John Demjanjuk on charges of accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews as a death camp guard was called off for the day Wedne...
Aaron Keyak | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
The use of swastikas, photos of dead Holocaust victims, and anti-Semitic epithets should have no place in any event or venue sponsored or promoted on either side of the partisan divide.
Macleans | Katie Engelhart | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
It is being touted as the last great Nazi trial. In November, John Demjanjuk--now first on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted war crim...
Stefan Sirucek | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The reason November 9 -- the day the Berlin Wall fell -- is not a national holiday in Germany, is that it also marks a much darker anniversary: Kristallnacht, the so-called "Night of Broken Glass."
AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
BERLIN — Heinrich Boere has admitted to gunning down three men as part of a Waffen SS death squad – civilians killed in retribution for pa...
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The Guardian | Tom Kington | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
Archived documents have revealed that Mussolini got his start in politics in 1917 with the help of a £100 weekly wage from MI5. For the British in...
Zahra Khan | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living
Like a torch that lights the way for many lifeboats seeking shore, Obama's "glow" helps bring people of color home.
Morgan Warners | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
A famously hawkish supporter of Israel, New Republic editor Marty Peretz's accusations about the president mimic the message of a fringe ring-wing email that I got my hands on.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Everyone knows that genocide means mass murder and that the Holocaust should be restricted to the mass murder of 6 million Jews during World War II. Abuse of these terms is inexcusable.
Larry Gellman | Posted 11.30.2009 | 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.
Josh Sugarmann | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business
Handgun manufacturer Glock finds itself and its one-time employees mired in a web of alleged criminal activity that includes money skimming, illegal campaign contributions, and even murder.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
A clear line can be drawn from the red-baiting and Muslim-baiting of Obama during the campaign to the birther movement and the accusation that the president was a Nazi to Joe Wilson's behavior.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.
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 ...
Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
We have witnessed a spate of violent bullying and psychological assault, moods of hostility and derision which have stooped to levels that defy any clear intention to act for the greater good.
AP | DAVID RISING and MARIA MARQUART | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
MUNICH — Gino Massetti was only 15 when Nazi troops rounded him up with 10 other Italian civilians and forced them into a barn in Tuscany before...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Rabbi Marvin Hier: "We demean ourselves and everything that America stands for when we compare either Democrats or Republicans to the Nazi Third Reich."
David A. Harris | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
These days the G.O.P. base has gone all-in when it comes to Hitler references and calling our president a Nazi. So when is the Republican Party going to formally say "enough is enough"?
The Independent | Allan Hall | Posted 08.30.2009 | World
Allan Hall | The Independent Germany's far-right National Democratic party (NPD) has triggered outrage with plans for a Third Reich-style "training c...
David Kroodsma | Posted 12.29.2009 | Green