Sean Penn’s outrageous ‘joke’
It is beyond comprehension why Penn chose to make such a reference on a night where, literally, the whole world was watching. A green card, of course, confers lawful permanent…
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Sean Penn’s outrageous ‘joke’
It is beyond comprehension why Penn chose to make such a reference on a night where, literally, the whole world was watching. A green card, of course, confers lawful permanent…
The future of war will be robotic
When the U.S. military invaded Iraq just over a decade ago, it only had a handful of unmanned systems, aka drones, in the air, and zero deployed into the ground…
Guns for women on campus make sense
As the nation contemplates better ways to prevent sexual assault on college campuses, legislators and college administrators alike have recently offered some mind-bogglingly dumb ideas. One of them is California’s…
Who will grab the millennial vote?
A new political generation has arrived in town: the millennials. Democrats and Republicans are struggling to make sense of who they are. Both parties are eager to appeal to this…
America facing anti-Muslim bigotry
“I have been told at my job to hide the fact I am Muslim for my own personal safety by a manager.” “I worry for my wife who wears a…
The Oscars take on inequality
All of which makes it hard to remember this former child star was a closeted actor afraid of being found out, not too long ago. In so many ways, Harris’…
The Oscars take on inequality
All of which makes it hard to remember this former child star was a closeted actor afraid of being found out, not too long ago. In so many ways, Harris’…
How big of a threat is Al-Shabaab to the United States?
How big a threat is Al-Shabaab to the United States? Despite the Somali terrorist group’s calls over the weekend for attacks on malls in the West, including the vast Mall…
How big of a threat is Al-Shabaab to the United States?
Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a professor of practice at Arizona State University and a vice president at the New America Foundation. He is the author of “Manhunt:…
Why 70-year-old Iwo Jima photo became iconic
But a U.S. commander thought the flag was too small to be seen at a distance. And so, a few hours later, five more Marines and one Navy medical corpsman…
Why ‘Still Alice’ is about you
Ai-jen Poo is the co-director of Caring Across Generations, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and author of the forthcoming book, “The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder…
Why ‘Still Alice’ is about you
Ai-jen Poo is the co-director of Caring Across Generations, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and author of the forthcoming book, “The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder…
10 ways to show you love America
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has generated a firestorm by asserting, at a fundraiser for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, “I know this is a horrible thing to say, but…
Tough choices: How to win against ISIS
Having helped to plan my fair share of international conferences and summits, I know a real success when I see it. And the White House’s summit on countering violence and…
Tough choices: How to win against ISIS
Having helped to plan my fair share of international conferences and summits, I know a real success when I see it. And the White House’s summit on countering violence and…
Tough choices: How to win against ISIS
Aaron David Miller is a vice president and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and was a Middle East negotiator in Democratic and Republican administrations. Follow…
Tough choices: How to win against ISIS
Aaron David Miller is a vice president and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and was a Middle East negotiator in Democratic and Republican administrations. Follow…
Rudy Giuliani’s Obama outburst is ugly, divisive
Several times in recent months, America has been treated to a spectacle that New Yorkers grew accustomed toand sick ofa long time ago: an outburst from ex-mayor Rudy Giuliani that…
Fight climate change, make money
Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Group. Paul Polman is the CEO of Unilever. The views expressed are their own. Though the public rarely notices, businesses succeed because of…
Don’t ban e-cigarettes on airplanes
These are good times for anti-smoking campaigners. But you wouldn’t know it from listening to their rhetoric. At the urging of anti-tobacco activists, the Department of Transportation is proposing to…
Don’t ban e-cigarettes on airplanes
These are good times for anti-smoking campaigners. But you wouldn’t know it from listening to their rhetoric. At the urging of anti-tobacco activists, the Department of Transportation is proposing to…
Not all soccer fans are racist hooligans
Brendan O’Neill is editor of the London-based online magazine spiked and is a columnist for The Big Issue in the UK and Reason.com in the United States. Video footage of…
We’re playing into ISIS’ hands
And, I would suggest, she should have gone further: There’s reason to think that bombing is exactly what ISIS wants us to do. Why else would they be goading us…
We’re playing into ISIS’ hands
“We cannot kill our way out of this war,” State Department spokesperson Marie Harf said on Tuesday. “We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root…
When online censorship is beautiful
It would be hard not to smile, right? I mean, what is that alien thing? An oversized kaleidoscope? A rip in the Matrix? Some kind of freakish, town-sized cauliflower? When…
Fix this hot, ugly immigration mess
America’s immigration issue needs a comprehensive and permanent bipartisan legislative solution. An executive action is a temporary and limited fix. On the night President Obama announced his most recent immigration…
Europe confronts wave of anti-Semitism
Even if there’s the suspicion of an impending attack, classes can be canceled and people are told to stay away from noticeably Jewish institutions. After the recent attacks in Paris,…
‘Moneyball’ for government
We have sparred privately and publicly on a range of issues on any number of occasions. But on this one, we both agree: government shouldand canplay “Moneyball.” “Moneyball for Government”…
Cindy Crawford and what real women look like
Everybody keeps telling me Cindy Crawfordwho always looked unrealis suddenly “real” because an unretouched photo of her leaked on Twitter. I’m sure you, like millions of others, have seen it…