We ought to demand more from Obama than the tired trope that we can only achieve peace by waging war. This means we need to challenge ourselves.
Michael Kieschnick | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics
If I were on the selection committee for the Peace Prize, I would be having buyer's remorse about the selection of Barack Obama.
Julie Farby | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Liz, for one, would never endanger America by treating an important world leader and key global ally with respect and deference. And you know who else wouldn't? Dick, that's who!
Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
While the president has made some strides toward curbing waste, fraud and abuse in Pentagon contracting, he has yet to change the crucial balance between military and non-military security spending.
Lys Anzia | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver
Menchú Tum’s journey has been haunted by a lifelong quest for peace for humanity and advocacy for the Maya with empowerment for all global indigenous people.
William Bradley | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.
Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
William Bradley | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
I think Obama's off to a very good start. But let's not clear space on Mount Rushmore yet. Just as I didn't think he deserved the Nobel, I don't think that Obama's very good start equates to a great presidency.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
We, the People, are perpetuating the tendency to blame one human being in what seems like the implicit wish for a strong monarch rather than a democratically elected President.
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
New Rule: Don't engage in the outrageous, unethical practice of inviting your friends and donors to use the bowling alley at the White House. Instead give them no-bid contracts like we did for Halliburton.
William Bradley | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
We can't afford to build a nation in Afghanistan. We have one reasonable goal there, and everything else, no matter how seemingly noble it may or may not be, is a luxury.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
Conservatives are topping even themselves, as they actually complain about the President calling for Americans to volunteer. If this keeps up, they are going to put The Onion out of business.
W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
The verbiage being hurled at President Obama sounds, to my twenty five years of counseling-trained ears, more like the rhetoric of abuse than of political discourse.
Dan Vickrey | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Quitting smoking, vowing to get in shape, and sticking to a budget are things that take time to adjust to in order to see results. The president and the nation are no different.
Gloria Duffy | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
The US is entering a season of key international negotiations, during which two arms control treaties that have been languishing for years will hopefully be completed.
Jim Luce | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York
Vargas Llosa speaks about Barack Obama's Nobel Prize, the state of literature, inter-American relations and politics.
Nick Turse | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
The Peace Prize gives Obama an opportunity to consider the history of American war-making and what the U.S. military is capable of doing. It's an unparalleled opportunity to face up to the limits of American military power.
Robert Koehler | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
The argument: In a world held hostage by nuclear weapons, there are smaller aggregate numbers of war dead; therefore, God bless nukes. Or maybe not.
William Bradley | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
Obama is in a multi-faceted complex of geopolitical crises. He is actively using military force in two of the countries, and has threatened, at the least, tough sanctions in the third.
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Learning to listen beyond our firmly established filters that dictate what we think before we've even heard what the other person is saying, opens the doors to authentic communication.
Robert Fuller | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Calls for civility have not worked, either with the public or the partisan commentators who model disdain and contempt for their followers. Why is hate resonating with the American public?
Ariel Dorfman | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
There are the real wars to win in Latin America. Against poverty and tyranny, against ecological depredation and the marginalization of the indigenous peoples and their wisdom.
Ellen Sterling | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
If I asked you to think of Jerry Springer and politics, you might recall that he was mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. But, if any of that is all you know about Springer, you're missing out.
Charles Perez | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
As Michelle Obama once warned critics, "Don't ever underestimate my husband." Maybe we shouldn't. Obama is playing a big game. His biggest challenge will come in righting the economy.
Hamdan Azhar | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
If the Nobel Peace Prize Committee tells us that war is compatible with peace, who are we to say otherwise?
Scott Kurashige | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics