In New Hampshire today, somebody doesn't get it -- either Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin. Maybe neither one does. Romney declared for president the old-fashioned way, with a picture-perfect, substantively vapid speech in front of a flag-draped barn and a chili-fed crowd of the usual political suspects. Meanwhile, like a hurricane or a hitchhiker, Palin worked her way up the coast solo in her non-campaign bus.
The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable. Every segment of our society, including those who have money and power, must contribute and must sacrifice.
You might think that a force as sweeping as global warming would be an equal opportunity threat, but the fact is climate change exacts a heavier toll on women.
Congress is fed up with the war in Afghanistan, and its members' turn against the war mirrors the quickly changing public opinion.
The Army Corps' temporary, hydraulic pumps have now been in place since June 1, 2006. That means, as of now, protective structures with a five-year life span are in year six.
Florida has just adopted two new drug testing requirements: one imposed on welfare recipients and the other on state employees. It is not without irony that these quintessential illustrations of Big Government were promoted by the Tea Party.
I was born with an unhealthy need for everyone to be looking at me, so it would seem that writing a book about myself would be right up my alley. But recounting my worst behavior with brutal honesty presented some problems.
In the end, we're all responsible for our own health. But we know that when we work together to make healthy choices easier and more affordable, everyone benefits. That's why in June we are marking our nation's first-ever Prevention and Wellness Month.
What if the fish you find in the market isn't what you think it is? According to a new report by Oceana, U.S. consumers are frequently served a completely different fish species than the one they paid for.
President Obama's well-intentioned efforts to jump-start the Middle East peace process have backfired, not so much because he favors one side over the other, but because of the ham-handedness of his negotiation strategy.
Seems like only a few weeks ago Huckabee was telling his fans he had decided not to run for president. Now he's telling the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that he is still leaving the door open to being vice president.
Many of us perhaps need to have our notion of God deepened and expanded. We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
While some families experience camera-ready, feel-good moments at family dinner, at least sometimes, other people feel like family dinner is one more thing for working parents to feel guilty about. Which image is right?
The leaders of Wall Street and big business may now have to wake up to a reality they've tried to avoid telling our leaders in Washington -- that the central economic problem of our time isn't the long-term budget deficit but the immediate deficit in aggregate demand.
To ignore needed public investments based on anti-spending ideology is to create an infrastructure deficit much more worrisome and damaging to the long-term economic well-being of this nation than the federal budget deficit.
This reboot/prequel is a genuine triumph. It is not just a great comic book film or a great X-Men film. X-Men: First Class stands proud as a just-plain terrific film.
The theme of this year's World Environment Day, Forests: Nature at Your Service, underscores the variety of life-sustaining services that forests provide and calls us all to take action to protect these resources and move towards a greener economy.
The goal of handing out foreign aid to foster "civil society" always sounds noble and well-intentioned. But you'll forgive someone like me for being skeptical about the results. There is no substitute for local knowledge. Democracy is never a simple translation.
The Republican Party's decision to focus almost all of its attention on the party's base created political energy that brought it back from the brink of irrelevancy, but is now beginning to haunt it as they seek to appeal to the center.
Those who take out loans and lines of credit are responsible for paying back what they owe. But the debt collection industry has run amok in the practices it deploys to get repaid, some acting more like organized crime than private businesses.
The Obama administration is making its biggest decisions yet on our energy future, and those decisions are intimately tied to this continent's geography.
The Sunday news shows often set the tone for the upcoming political week. As the same voices drone on, Bernie Sanders' repeated absence means the political and media elites are overlooking the forces squeezing working and middle class Americans.
Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, and boy gets to marry girl. But then girl turns into a tree and uses her roots to drag boy underground so that she can, once more, lie naked beside him and hold him in her arms.
The Internet measures everything. And I am a slave to those measurements. I've started measuring my sense of self-worth using the same metrics as the Internet uses to measure success.
Modern science has led the world to shift from spiritual aspirations to a war for material accumulation.
In the end, I think we all ought to send a message to all those people who think it's their jobs to tell us about the things that are bad for us. Shut up. Stand down. Join the rest of us in the 21st Century. We'll be here waiting.
