It's just plain crazy to spend my life chasing money so I can buy more stuff. Instead, I'm pursuing what I think of as free luxuries. I share this list as a public service.
Joseph Freeman | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
Hosny publicly said that he would burn all the books in Alexandria's library that had anything to do with Israel. He also called Israeli culture "racist."
Mahasti Afshar | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
As someone who since June has been witnessing the events in Iran virtually, I can vouch that the crisis as reported on Twitter and Facebook, YouTube and Flikr and iReports is anything but opaque.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
When deadly riots broke out in China last week, the Chinese government sprang into message control mode. It choked off the Internet, blocked Twitter, and deleted updates and videos from social networking sites. At the same time, it invited foreign journalists to take a tour of the area. The Chinese have clearly learned the lessons of Iran. READ MORE Shattering the Right vs. Left Prism Once Again: The Wall Street Journal Goes After Goldman and the Bank Bailout Even the capitalist Bible is taking shots at Wall Street darling Goldman Sachs. We've now reached the point where the only people defending the administration's Wall Street policies are the people benefiting from them -- or their good friends, Tim Geithner and Larry Summers. READ MORE
nytimes.com | ROGER COHEN | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
NEW YORK -- I hope President Obama has been reading James Baker in preparation for his speech Thursday to the Muslim world. It was in the time of the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2009 | Media
I had to figure that Roger Cohen, writing in this morning's New York Times, was going to lose me the minute he began: Language is lethal. The Bush ad...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
Sweeping away the government's crimes is no longer the behavior of apologist sycophants. It's called Noonology, and now you can try it at home!
New York Times | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
"Iran is the center of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because Hitler did not possess a nuclear...
Joan Z. Shore | Posted 01.18.2009 | World
It's true that Paris has changed. Evolved, I'd say. But it is trying, in some ways, to stop the alluring march of "progress."
Haim Watzman | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
We had barely slept for two nights and were caked with the mud stirred up by a late-winter downpour. Within a few minutes we threw our gear together and lugged it into the choppers that flew us to Tyre.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Roger Cohen's up in the New York Times opinion pages today, working through the disconnect between the sexual mores of France and the United States, e...
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living