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Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told the Senate this week that we need to allow the biggest banks to fail. McConnell explained that he opposes the financial industry reform […]
Today, I'm blogging from the JUNO Awards in St. John's, Newfoundland. The JUNOs are Canada's equivalent of the Grammys. The JUNOs honor Canadian musicians and ensembles. I'm here with my […]
Clicking "Like" on a Facebook page won't meet the challenges that face our times, quips an editorial in The Christian Science Monitor.
Columnist Gail Collins asks what makes us prefer lawyers as politicians even though the story often ends the same way: with failure.
Tim Rutten at The Los Angeles Times writes that the Tea Party has no manifesto as such and is only the rebranding of the "Angry While Male".
Generation Y's selfish desire for instant gratification has created political apathy and kept them from even the simplest gesture of completing the census form.
Garrison Keillor writes that plain and simple virtues like honesty and modesty are considered naive in politics but are still crucial to a peaceful earthly existence.
Bill Clinton compares today's anti-government rallies to the nation's attitude during his Presidency at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing.
New research finds that our brains do best deciding between two options and that men and women are equally ill-suited for multitasking.
The Catholic Church's inability to find a satisfactory answer to its sex abuse scandal is a result of the Church's Romanic political structure.
Organizers of this summer's World Cup in South Africa have not done enough to accommodate the local population and have been insensitive to local traditions.
An e-mail exchange between a Washington and Jerusalem-based reporter takes stock of the changing relationship between the U.S. and Israel.
The other day I pointed out the conflicting motives of corporations that sell soda, snacks and fast food: They promote "wellness" because they want manageable health-care costs, but they also […]
Many an aspiring screenwriter has pored over Robert McKee's book "Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting," trying to suss out the creative secrets that will result in […]
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Our "insidious" digital overconnectedness can pose a major challenge.
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What the philosopher can still teach us about grief versus stoicism and "the role of emotions in the good life."
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The military ethicist believes Abu Ghraib represented an ethical breakdown "from the top down." But have things changed under Obama?
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From the Iliad to Afghanistan, the field of military ethics has tried—not always successfully—to impose rules on the chaos of mass slaughter.
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We’re taking better psychological care of soldiers than we used to. But with deployments getting longer and longer, far more needs to be done.
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Maddening boredom. Utter numbness. Comradeship so intense that it threatens family ties. War’s worst psychological effects can be the ones you’d never expect.