While grappling for ideas for a book on American identity I've been trying to figure out what actually defines an American.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.18.2009 | Home
On "Real Time" Friday Bill Maher went on a diatribe about how the reason America mourned Michael Jackson so intensely--or as Maher put, lost its "coll...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 08.18.2009 | World
MUMBAI, India — Off the injured list and back on the world stage, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday gave an impassioned...
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
What can be said about a kleptocratic country with no rule of law, where women are shot dead, young promising lawyers slain and the rest cowed into submission by fear?
Robert Koehler | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
If we envision a nuclear-free world, the agreement reached by Medvedev and Obama to reduce their nations' nuclear arsenals to 1,500 warheads can easily seem minimalist in the extreme.
Janice Taylor | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
We human beings are pretty crude creatures. We want more, more, more. We have insatiable appetites. We do everything in excess, in both our personal and collective lives.
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 08.15.2009 | World
China's deputy U.N. ambassador has made clear that Beijing, a major trading partner of Burma, would not use its influence to bring about any major change in the isolated southeast Asian nation.
Dan Persons | Posted 08.14.2009 | Entertainment
In a new political comedy based on an award-winning BBC sitcom, Gandolfini plays a Pentagon General whose instincts for survival are maybe too finely honed. It's political vitriol in the grand, British tradition.
Banning Garrett | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green
In Denmark, there will be only one meaningful question asked: will the US and China come together to make meaningful concessions to reduce their environmental footprints?
Rob Warmowski | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
Why now? Why did the House allow hundreds of dubious, abusive Bush signing statements in eight years without such an amendment, but can find its courage and love of accountability today?
Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
Krauthammer wants Russia to build more nuclear weapons. Why? Because he thinks we can shoot them out of the sky like clay pigeons. This is simply not true.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
Washington showed up, laid its cards on the table, and treated Russia very seriously. Now the ball is in Kremlin's court to do the same.
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
We'll be following the Group of 8 Summit in L'Aquila here with news, photos and video. Feel free to check back at regular intervals for updates. ***...
The Guardian | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
Preparations for Wednesday's G8 summit in the Italian mountain town of L'Aquila have been so chaotic there is growing pressure from other member state...
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 08.05.2009 | Media
"Unfortunately, I wasn't scared enough, and I wasn't cautious," Anderson admitted. "I got caught because I refused to take the precautions that I probably should have."
Spencer Green | Posted 08.03.2009 | Comedy
Focus groups show that only 66 percent of citizens hold these truths to be self-evident; 22 percent hold them to be rather ambiguous; 12 percent are undecided.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
China is expected to ban imports of U.S. chicken in coming days, a move likely to deliver a blow to the struggling American chicken industry and escal...
New Yorker | Steve Coll | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
The question of whether Osama bin Laden has ever visited the United States, a subject on which I have expended an unhealthy amount of energy in the co...
Leslie Harris | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
Chinese Internet users won an important victory this week when the Chinese government indefinitely delayed implementation of the widely condemned "Green Dam" filtering software.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
The United States lost to Brazil in the final of the FIFA Confederations cup. All I can say is, thank God.
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials said Tuesday that a North Korean ship has turned around and is headed back toward the north where it came from, afte...
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
International parental child abduction is not a new phenomenon but its increasing frequency appears to be a by-product of globalization.
AP | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Mexican man has been detained for allegedly plotting to sell a young woman, two girls and two boys for $2,000 apiece in the Unit...
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
The conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories, which Bush et al either supported or outright committed, actually strengthened the Ahmadinejad government.
Janice Taylor | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green
Food, Inc. is a mind-blowing, stomach-twisting, eye-opening and ultimately heart-breaking film.
Akbar Ahmed | Posted 08.20.2009 | Style