The good news is that Russia is no longer governed by an expansionist ideology, and in fact, it is not a strong country, but still a weak one -- the country's economy is a one trick pony.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home
A President Obama's greatest challenge would be to reverse the ideological assumptions of the past three decades and then to use affirmative government to deliver not just economic recovery but a just and balanced economy and a revitalized democracy.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics
I don't usually comment on sports, so take anything I say with a grain of salt. I'm no professional sports guy, nor do I play one on the web. But I h...
Seth Swirsky | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics
Americans could only consider an Obama, because of the remarkable success of President Bush, through his decisive actions, in ratcheting down the fear Americans felt for many years after 9/11.
Murray Fromson | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
While Washington always seems to know how to deal with Moscow in blunt, threatening language, it best beware that the times are a-changing. Nationalism and pride are on the march in Russia.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
President Bush's new deal with Poland gives that country millions in aid, stokes Russia's paranoia and decreases America's security. It is bad policy.
Ellen Feldman | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
Our current society is saturated with sex. It sells every product under the sun. But the Bush administration, ever backward looking, still cannot distinguish between contraception and abortion.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
We haven't done a photo caption contest here in far too long, and this one just begged for it. What exactly is Bush saying? Picture a word balloon above him, and what would you put in it?
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
Why haven't any citizens or government officials from the autonomous Province of South Ossetia been interviewed by the MSM?
Chris Meserole | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
The violence in Georgia has revealed just how extensively Washington has realigned its interests in central Asia. The Bush administration has no desire to let Georgia burn, yet that's exactly what it's doing.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
Even if al-Qaeda evaporated, if Iraq becomes a democracy and Afghanistan a poppy-free tribal confederacy, and if Iran suddenly abjures its interest in nuclear weapons, the world will not become "safe."
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
American evangelicals invaded Russia with missionaries, said the Orthodox aren't "real Christians," and attacked their friends. Now we expect Russia to be logical about these matters and do what is good for business.
Vanessa Tyson | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
Saving for a rainy day has always been wise advice. Thanks to the Bush administration, our rainy day has come, and we have little, if anything, to fall back on.
Paul Peete | Posted 08.07.2008 | Home
The radio host abandoned all progressive logic and spent his entire radio show ranting against Obama to the amazement of listeners who have heard him push for Obama's election time and again.
Larry Gellman | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
Before Bush, we could rightfully claim to be a moral country that refused to torture and demean people in the same ways as those countries we have criticized in the past. No more.
Marc Kusnetz | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
Perhaps -- and I'm only making a modest proposal here, so don't get me wrong -- perhaps the journalistic community might do something extraordinary: pursue the Habbush story.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home
We have had a long tradition of coming together as a nation to memorialize our fallen heroes--the men and women whose lives were lost on the battlefie...
Jason kelly | Posted 07.31.2008 | Home
How is it that a president who lectures the world about the importance of free societies presumes that talking even about a drunk Wall Street suffering a hangover is too much for citizens to handle?
Sandy Goodman | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media
Occasionally, Dana Milbank wakes up with his head tightly wedged into his rear end and Wednesday, with his Obama column, was one of those days.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
What I'm really saying is Americans are unconscious. You can see it in the verbs. This isn't a value judgment, I am just intrigued by what gets in and...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama made a campaign promise to visit the state of Alaska before the election. And what better time than right now to follow through on this promise?
Eric Boehlert | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media
It's only considered to be newsworthy, and to be a point of deep media concern, when a Democrat is accused of slighting the press.
Dan Agin | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
When the American public passively accepts Pentagon censorship of the casualties of an unnecessary war, you are witnessing a consequence of the gaslighting of America.
Hugh Hamilton | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media
Did Andrew Klavan see the same film as the rest of us? The one in which Batman's actions are completely manipulated by the Joker until the very end?
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Derek Shearer | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics