This week I spoke at Russia's Safer Internet Day Conference and thought I'd share an edited version my remarks.
The Internet has an enormous impact on all aspects of life including commerce, journalism and education and no single group has been more adaptive to technology than our...
Nancy Doyle Palmer | Posted February 7, 2012 | Entertainment
What's it like to come back to the United States when you're not only a soldier but a wife and mother? Return, a film written and directed by Lisa Johnson, stars Linda Cardellini as just such a woman who faces the daunting challenge of coming home.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted February 7, 2012 | Business
A Missouri grand jury handed down multiple felony indictments for foreclosure fraud on Monday. That's the same kind of crime being negotiated in nationwide settlement talks with America's big banks. If people can be indicted for doing it, why should bankers be allowed to write a check and walk away?
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Scott Mendelson | Posted February 7, 2012 | Moviefone
It is no secret that I often whine about the lack of mid-budget, star-driven, adult-skewing thrillers in this fantasy-tent pole era. And while there has certainly been a slight resurgence in the form over the last year, it still remains a fact that most of the stars of today and yesterday (or...
Al Checchi | Posted February 7, 2012 | Politics
The decision to require employers to provide contraceptives or sterilization, as part of government mandated health insurance and specifically single these out as exempt from co-pays or deductibles runs counter to our political and cultural traditions. There is a significant difference between recognizing a woman's "right" to choose and making...
Crystal Bell | Posted February 7, 2012 | TV
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 3, Episode 12 of Fox's "Glee," entitled, "The Spanish Teacher."
Considering I knew beforehand that "The Spanish Teacher" would be very Will-centric, I wasn't too excited for this episode. Although, I must admit that Ricky...
Abigail E. Disney | Posted February 7, 2012 | Politics
Right now, more than five million Americans are suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. And when I use the word "suffering" I know what I am talking about. Last Friday, I watched my mother take her last labored breath after years of anguish, humiliation, physical pain and mental misery. In six...
Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Posted February 7, 2012 | Gay Voices
Did you catch the Toyota Camry Super Bowl commercial?
The narrator begins the ad with a voiceover: "After reinventing the Toyota Camry, we decided to keep reinventing." Then, a dorky guy carrying a bag of groceries opens the door of his apartment and is stunned at the sight before...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted February 7, 2012 | World
Commemorative plaque in Havana for the first telephone conversation in Spanish, which occurred in that city on 31 October 1877. Photo: Yoani Sanchez
It weighs more than a "bad marriage," my grandmother used to say about that enormous black telephone in the neighbor's...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted February 7, 2012 | Politics
The Super Bowl is known almost as much for the commercials which run during the game as for the game itself. Sunday's game was no exception. Two commercials, one by Chrysler and one by Pete Hoekstra, a Republican Senate candidate in Michigan, were significant because of...
Ruth Gerson | Posted February 7, 2012 | Entertainment
Arj Barker is a rock star -- a rock star comedian, actor, and writer. I was introduced to him late in the game through the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords. My husband, however, can repeat some of Barker's earliest lines from when he started comedy in...
Steve Sanders | Posted February 7, 2012 | Gay Voices
Dan Solin | Posted February 7, 2012 | Business
I am fascinated by the way most people invest, because it is demonstrably wrong. Here's how you probably pick your mutual funds.
Your broker calls and tells you about a mutual fund he believes is right for your portfolio. The pitch usually involves a discussion of the stellar past performance...
Vanessa Becknell | Posted February 7, 2012 | Denver
The Actor/Director/Overall Awesome Person sits down with Alistair (Vanessa) to talk about his Genie-nominated film, Son of the Sunshine, and a romance is born.
Set in low-income Ontario, Canada, Ryan Ward's Son of the Sunshine tells the story of Sonny Johnns, a young man suffering from Tourette's Syndrome,...
Carol Smaldino | Posted February 7, 2012 | Education
There is something terribly troubling in the media and political discourse about education in our time. We so urgently need critical thinking to gauge what measures we can engage so we might inspire our children to study and invent their own paths to the gateways to what we call...
David Groshoff | Posted February 7, 2012 | Gay Voices
While many people are celebrating the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in the Prop 8 case, I'll take this opportunity to use my platform for the usual buzzkill for a while, since a stay of this decision is in place until at least the end of this...
Sen. Bob Casey | Posted February 7, 2012 | Education
This post is part of a series on childhood poverty in the United States in partnership with Save the Children and Julianne Moore. Moore leads the organization's Valentine's Day campaign. To learn more, go to SaveTheChildren.org.
As a public servant, I spend a lot of time...
Mike Lapointe | Posted February 7, 2012 | Politics
After winning Nevada on Saturday, Mitt Romney is now the clear front-runner in the Republican presidential nomination. With 101 delegates secured, all he needs is 1,043 more.
There's still a long way to go.
Primary contests are notoriously complicated; different states have different rules that change in different...
Mimi Bekhechi | Posted February 7, 2012 | UK
In a precedent-setting case, PETA US, three marine-mammal experts and two former orca trainers are suing SeaWorld on behalf of five orcas who were taken from their home by force, locked up, put to work and never allowed to leave. The case intends to prove that these orcas...
Philip Hepple | Posted February 7, 2012 | UK Comedy
Sometimes, in this busy world, it can be hard keeping up to date with your horoscopes.
As a time-saving aid I have consulted the stars and formulated a universal horoscope.
These are written (after consulting the stars) for this week, but as they are universal all you have to do...
Larry Magid | Posted February 7, 2012 | Technology