Why aren't women, in particular, more vocal about ending warfare?
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.23.2011 | Politics
As was entirely predictable, once Obama stood up for taxing the rich folk a wee bit more, the Republicans fired back with what they think is the biggest weapon in their arsenal: screaming "Class warfare!"
HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 10.24.2011 | Green
At the outset of his new book, "Tropic of Chaos" author Christian Parenti suggests that the violent death of Kenyan farmer Ekaru Loruman -- and perhap...
Rep. Charles Rangel | Posted 07.25.2011 | Politics
I absolutely condemn the provision added in the defense authorization bill that essentially allows the president to declare war against anyone, anytime and anywhere.
Adam Elkus | Posted 06.08.2011 | World
There are basically two "ideal" types of military operations -- irregular warfare fought by guerrillas and terrorists on the small-unit level and regu...
Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Revisiting my previous post "Aircraft Carriers and Chinese Missiles: Time to Rethink US Naval Doctrine" , I would like to approach the issue from a di...
Posted 05.25.2011 | World
It's a rare filmmaker who could juxtapose festive fireworks with brutal gunfire and transition from the inside of a New York coffee shop to a huddle o...
Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
After the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, I began to envision a new American flag -- one with the stars replaced by the corporations that call the shots.
Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
If you support Wikileaks, if you support transparency, accountability, or even just basic free speech, you should not be playing into the government's semantic game that presents itself as a victim, and Wikileaks as an attacker.
Christian Wolmar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Railways changed the nature of warfare, and created the potential for prolonged and mass scale warfare.
Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Why cannot political leaders level with the American people on the costs of warfare? It is obvious if they did so, the appetite for voluntary invasions especially would be greatly diminished.
Robert Greene | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Google's culture is focused on the idea that the company is the spearhead of a revolution. This sense of being part of a cause created an extremely motivated workforce, which allows Google to practice a kind of maneuver warfare.
Christopher Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
When a group of bonobos encounters another group, an orgy may well break out, but not a battle.
Laura Colarusso | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
There will come a time, military experts say, when it's technically feasible for a drone aircraft to take off from an air base without being flown by an operator sitting at the controls.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Senators are wrestling with saving a penny here and a penny there when they're aimed at bolstering people's health, but they believe the sky is the limit so long as the money is being funneled into foreign occupations.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Democrats have to get over their knee-jerk reaction to being labeled "tax and spenders" by their opposition. If higher taxes for millionaires are the way to pay for healthcare reform, then let everyone know it, and know why.
Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Yes, it's the end of the world as we know it ... and it really is all fine.
Robert Rosenthal | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Planes these days stink. They never smelled too good to begin with, but now it's worse now than ever -- by virtually eliminating food on flights, airlines have created ethnic food warfare at 36,000 feet.
Michael Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
As horrible as the Afghanistan war already is, the ascension of McChrystal signals a new level of carnage -- and the economic and social immiseration of the hundreds of thousands who survive the onslaught.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Obama's tough talk to frontally combat piracy is welcome. But the far bigger problem remains the never ending crisis of a broken nation that pushes thousands of men to high sea gangsterism.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
President Obama knows the United States has been losing these wars and also knows the terrible impact these wars have had on a group of people when they are labeled and targeted.
Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
McCain has unleashed a number of diversionary tactics, including his good-looking VP running mate. These diversions are designed to confuse and mislead the enemy.
Michele Willens | Posted 01.18.2012 | Women