If Barack Obama wants to truly improve American national security, he should encourage a wide-ranging -- and public -- debate over military doctrine and strategy.
Michael Russnow | Posted 11.26.2008 | Entertainment
John Wayne found True Grit towards the end of his career and now Clint Eastwood has done the same with an unforgettable performance in Gran Torino.
Sean-Paul Kelley | Posted 11.25.2008 | Style
When I visited a government office, the women, all young, do the menial work and the men sit around, collect the money, boss them around and pretty much seem useless.
Keith Thomson | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
A recent Defense Department report cites cases of 173 Americans arrested between 1947 and 2007 for passing state secrets to al-Qaeda, China, Egypt, Cuba, Poland, Germany, Russia, North Korea, France, among others.
Nick Turse | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
Lawrence B. Wilkerson has spent 31 years as a soldier in the US Army, including military service in Vietnam. He played a role in the death of a Vietnamese girl and came to disclose that.
Ari Herzog | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
At a time when the World Bank describes the Obama Administration as embracing e-government themes, why does the President-elect's own tech roadmap fail to mention it by name?
Stephen Molton and Gus Russo | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama, like Jack Kennedy, combines great intellect, good looks, and grace. Unlike Kennedy, Obama seems uncluttered by the moral baggage that added to Kennedy's miseries.
Gordon Goldstein | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
The new commander-in-chief would be wise to examine JFK's first year: Appoint the strongest team possible, yet be prepared to reject your counselors' advice, even when vastly outnumbered.
William Bradley | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama has never worn the uniform. Yet he has more rapport with the experience of the American veteran than the Republicans who are now in the process of relinquishing power to him and his allies.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
By Stephen C. Rose Oddly, no one has thought to compare the situations of Barack Obama and LBJ, but there are similarities. And, happily, redemptive ...
Ben Cohen | Posted 11.03.2008 | Business
Noam Chomsky's encyclopedic knowledge of political, philosophical and economic issues is simply breathtaking, as is his ability to break complex subjects down to their rawest essentials.
Marc Cooper | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home
Hope, says the dictionary, is about our desires. Faith, on the other hand, is about confidence. I've got tons of the former, and damn near none of the latter. So if Obama offers hope, I'll take what I can get.
Daniel Sinker | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics
With Obama, it's not possible to fight the Vietnam war all over again. It's simply not his war.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
I previously wrote an article about those who have served in our military, and the challenges facing them and their families. At that time, I intervi...
Lisa Solod Warren | Posted 10.28.2008 | Home
The last time we had spoken, Richard had been a clear undecided. Intelligent, thoughtful and torn he was also a man clearly down on his luck and looking for a way out.
Judah Freed | Posted 10.28.2008 | Home
The third debate has evoked comments from both the left and right about John McCain's anger at Barack Obama. I've analyzed this by capturing about 350 still images of McCain from the debate.
Mike Doughty | Posted 10.27.2008 | Media
I grew up a military kid, on Army bases, and it was fascinating to watch the join-the-Army ads spooling by on TV, in contrast to the drab reality of military life.
Howie Greene | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics
Do we really want this guy locked up again, but this time as the leader of the "free world?" In essence, that's what being the president is all about. You are a POWH... Prisoner of the White House.
Daily Telegraph | Tom Leonard | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
The Republicans have used shots and excerpts from the 1967 interview in their advertising but the widow of the journalist who made the film says it wa...
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media
In a deep sense, this election really is about turning the page on the thinking that would divide us by whether we have regrets about Vietnam. Or Iraq. Or war period.
Hal Donahue | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
When he saw my Veterans for Obama button, an irate Vietnam-era veteran shouted at me. I realize that McCain's shoddy voting record for veterans and the troops is largely unknown.
Stanley Kutler | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics
What in the world is Barack Obama thinking? Mercifully, he plans to scale down and end the Iraq misadventure, yet he insists he will expand the effort in Afghanistan.
Steve Parker | Posted 10.08.2008 | Business
The number of people late on their monthly car and truck payments is huge, represented by nearly $25 billion worth of consumer auto loans that are delinquent.
Jean Vickers | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home
To assert that Obama "hangs around with terrorists" is an attempt to capitalize on the tumult of the 1960's without concretely linking that era to contemporary politics.
Disgrasian | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
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Adam Elkus | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics