Sep 10th 2009
When Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) yelled out that President Obama was a "liar" in the middle of Obama's nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress, he became the poster child for the new
Sep 9th 2009
In The Prince, published in 1532, Nicolo Machiavelli asked whether it was better for a prince to be loved or feared.
Sep 8th 2009
As Congress reconvenes, Republicans and insurance companies are trying their hardest to frame the health care debate as President Obama's attempt to engineer a "government takeover" of the nation's health care system.
Sep 8th 2009
RAMALLAH - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to approve new Jewish settlements on the eve of a possible settlement freeze is the latest round in a cycle that has been repeated so many times over the past 40 years that it would seem mundane if it were not so dangerous.
Sep 7th 2009
Probably the speeches President Obama has scheduled next week will come off as planned. On Tuesday, he is set to address schoolchildren on TV in the nation's classrooms. Some parents, dreading a subliminal message, will refuse to send their children to school.
Sep 6th 2009
In "Should You Get Your Drug Information From an Actor?" I discussed the pharmaceutical industry's egregious practice of using celebrity-driven, prime time televisio
Sep 3rd 2009
I have never really trusted those who are intolerant and condemning of other people's shortcomings. It makes me suspect that they are likely hiding their own.
Sep 3rd 2009
CAMBRIDGE - Everyone from the Queen of England to laid-off Detroit autoworkers wants to know why more experts did not see the financial crisis coming. It is an awkward question.
Sep 2nd 2009
While all the attention has been paid to angry opponents of health care reform at Congressional town hall meetings, a bigger problem for President Obama and his party is brewing among Democrats.
Sep 2nd 2009
President Obama and his administration have correctly emphasized that exploding costs, limited access, and uneven quality of basic medical care in the United States are all unacceptable.
Aug 30th 2009
Every year or so, the video game industry releases its latest demographics on its audience. And every year the big news is that the video game player is growing older (this year's result: 35).
Aug 28th 2009
How did everything fall apart so quickly?
After the first 100 days, President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress were on top of the world. The President's job ratings were in the 60s.
Aug 27th 2009
Has the time come to rethink the concept of piano competitions? Many participants and leading musicians believe so.
Aug 26th 2009
There has been much commentary that the Senate debate on health care would have benefited from the parliamentary and personal skills of Senator Ted Kennedy had he been present over the months of illness
Aug 26th 2009
TAMPA - Patients and politicians increasingly demand a "cure" for cancer. But controlling the disease may prove to be a better strategy than striving to cure it.
Aug 25th 2009
Torture is back in the news (good) -- along with renditions (bad) and assorted assassination units (worse). Let's concentrate on what looks positive.
Aug 25th 2009
Summers are rarely kind to American Presidents. Despite Congress being in recess and Washington slowing to a quiet crawl, it is in August when issues heat up and boil over and when presidents appear to lose control of their agenda.
Aug 25th 2009
The first annual European-wide commemoration of the "the victims of Stalinism and Nazism" took place on August 23.