Being on a budget isn't about chaste saving. It's all about impulse control and editing. Skipping the last minute mediocre dinners out in order to save for a fabulous feast.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 12.12.2009 | World
Obama's speech in Oslo was brilliant. And yet, I have one significant problem with Obama's speech. It contained one gaping element of hypocrisy. It concerns Israelis and Palestinians.
Barry Yourgrau | Posted 12.10.2009 | World
I scanned Obama's text for invocations of democratic consent from the Afghan people for more troops, more compassionate war. Isn't this supposed to be part of our mix here? But no luck.
James Bradley | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books
Theodore Roosevelt won the Peace Prize for bringing the Russians and Japanese to the negotiating table to end the bloody Russo-Japanese War. In fact, Roosevelt did little to abet peace.
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 12.10.2009 | World
OSLO — Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his pre...
Sky News | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
The Dalai Lama told Sky News: "I think if you are realistic, it may have been a little early but it doesn't matter, I know Obama is a very able person...
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?
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
The New York Review of Books, our content partner, Is teasing its new site by giving us a peek at their brand new blog section today. As usual it is f...
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
The Nobel being awarded to Obama is the world saying loud and clear that the right wing zealots in the United States are out-of-line with everybody else on the planet.
Huff Radio | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
The Nobel Peace Prize has been, stunningly and unexpectedly, given to President Barack Obama. Is it a case of unrealistic expectations? Will it help o...
AP | IAN MacDOUGALL and KARL RITTER | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
OSLO — One judge noted with surprise that President Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate....
Peter Owen Nelson | Posted 10.12.2009 | Comedy
After President Obama was awarded the Peace Prize, I received an invitation from Chairman Jagland of the Nobel Prize Committee to live-blog their proceedings.
Scott Atran | Posted 10.10.2009 | World
The award of the Peace Prize to Obama is a symbolic gesture to youth all over the developing world who have a new hero. Perhaps the ability to simply inspire hope now indeed merits a Nobel.
Paula Gordon | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
My first thought on hearing the news was to rejoice. My second thought was anticipation of the squeals, whines and bellyaches that America's extreme wrong-wing noisemakers invariably shriek.
Steven Weber | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
While bestowing laurels upon Obama may strike some as premature, what is long overdue are the consequences for the right's assault on reason and sanity, consequences which have a satisfying irony.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.
Jesse Larner | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.
Robert Fuller | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
Obama got the prize not for doing, but for being. Not for making peace, but for exemplifying something new on the world stage -- the politics of dignity.
AP | KARL RITTER and MALIN RISING | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books
STOCKHOLM — Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth join Israel's Amos Oz at the top of the buzz surrounding the Nobel Prize in literature, ...
The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded this morning to Herta Müller, a Romanian-born German poet and novelist, "who," stated the Swedish Acad...
Garrett Johnson | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
How can the Treasury, White House, and Congress be so tone deaf to calls to stop the massive give-away to the same people who got us into this mess?
Julia Moulden | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living
Is thinking about wisdom part of getting older? Lately, I've been wondering what wisdom is. Here's how my dictionary defines it, "Understanding what...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business
Geithner grew up in Zimbabwe, India and Thailand. It would have been impossible for him to not have seen what true poverty is and how his father was helping to establish part of the solution.
John Feffer | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
With only one week left in what 61% of U.S. historians have called the worst presidency ever, it is time for one last, squirming appraisal of the damage done.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business
We need to make communities strong again. Our local money does not need to be mixed in with some guy's hedge fund abstract tranche of nothing all to make a fee for some banker in New York.
Rosalyn Hoffman | Posted 12.15.2009 | Style