It is fully understandable that in the culture of the rich and powerful, anything goes if it serves the purposes of making money and living extremely well.
Jamie Stiehm | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
What a difference a president makes to a free people. What Milton, the poet of Paradise Lost, might write about our fall from light to dark between ...
Lance Simmens | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics
Economic adversaries can be healthy, military ones are rarely so. But seeking common ground internationally will help free up scarce financial resources for non-military purposes.
Heather Robinson | Posted 12.30.2008 | World
I spoke over the phone with Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi, head of the Iraqi Nation Party in Baghdad -- he says, interestingly, a significant number of Iraqis are not reflexively anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian.
Michael Vazquez | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's campaign, in its mastery of the myriad intricacies of our electoral process, created a strategy which has helped us rediscover and reexamine democracy in America.
Michael Garrity | Posted 12.29.2008 | World
Canadian politics over the last several weeks has been hands-down the best drama on television. It is also in a state of crisis and in urgent need of the type of political renewal the U.S. is going through.
Val Strange | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics
The cancer of our sick economy already metastasized to the bone, but analysts are hard-pressed to diagnose the current conditions akin to the Great Depression.
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 12.27.2008 | World
For Bhutto's many flaws, she was enormously brave. You cannot for a moment imagine that she did not know she had a target almost tattooed over her heart.
Jason Pielemeier | Posted 12.24.2008 | World
Yale World Fellows advise Barack Obama on his first term, with tips on how he can transform the energy economy, advice on Afghanistan, and suggestions for how he can help create a global democracy.
Christine Pelosi | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics
As a third generation elected Democratic party official, I speak in favor of family service, and would hope that everyone interested in public life share that call with the next generation.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
It's a golden time to have an opinion. Broadcasting your personal viewpoint to the world has never been easier. The chances of fame, if only momentary...
Rishi Manchanda | Posted 12.10.2008 | World
Kenya's health infrastructure remains thirsty for workers in a sea of relative plenty, and patients continue to pay the ultimate price.
Christine Pelosi | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
I don't draw the line at debate -- I draw it at decency: respect for each other, for the rule of law, for the role of America in the world.
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 12.09.2008 | World
If citizens' having real choice is the heart of democracy -- and no human being chooses to go hungry -- we might ponder: Isn't hunger's very existence proof of a deficit of democracy?
Stephen Zunes | Posted 12.09.2008 | World
The triumph of democracy in the Maldive Islands should be counted as yet another example of the power of civil resistance to create a government by the people, for the people.
Michael Garrity | Posted 12.08.2008 | Media
At times over the last year, Twitter has rivaled the biggest news and information portal sites in the industry. Further, I would argue that Twitter could soon do what Digg had promised and failed to do years ago: to democratize the news industry.
Don Tapscott | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
President-elect Obama's mobilizing the millions of young people who supported his presidential campaign to help him as he prepares to govern a troubled country.
Dave Johnson | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
FDR believed that the depression was caused by wealth flowing to the top (as today) and would be corrected by asserting that We, the People take back control of our common resources.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 12.05.2008 | World
More than a decade before the June 4th Massacre, right after Deng's Reform era began in China, came the "Democracy Wall Movement" -- named for a Beijing area where critics started putting up posters in 1978.
Andrea Friedman | Posted 12.03.2008 | World
Rwanda is primarily known as the site of a horrific genocide. It is now the first country to have a majority of women in the legislature at 56%, up from a high of 18% before the conflict.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 11.29.2008 | Entertainment
I think that this Rose (album) by any other name would have been quite different in terms of impact in China.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
Standing in front of thousands of applauding soldiers in Kentucky, President Bush staunchly defended the US-led invasion of Iraq. He must have missed the Iraqis pummeling his effigy with their shoes on Friday.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.26.2008 | Media
For George Bush, democracy is bulling through a Florida decision which makes his government only borderline legitimate from the gitgo. It is forcing "change" with soldiers rather than friendly persuasion. It is pandering.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
The Leonard Cohen concert at the Olympia in Paris last night was better than I could have imagined it to be...and it made so much more sense as I list...
Derek Shearer | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Obama is the American President, but he is, in many respects, also the world's President. What he does will matter to young and old across the globe. The world, like America, is waiting for him to lead.
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Gordon Fellman | Posted 01.07.2009 | Business