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Obama, Can You Spare a Job?
One of the latest attacks on Obama’s failed policies claims that his economic stimulus created few jobs at exorbitant cost to taxpayers: $278,000 per job, to be exact. Fuzzy math aside, what these...
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What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime
Long before the War on Terror, there was the War on Crime. And as much as 9/11 was a watershed event, many aspects of the nation’s response to the terrorist attacks find longstanding precedent in the...
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Aging Heroes of 9/11: Search and Rescue Dogs
The UK’s Daily Mail last week ran a feature with photos of search and rescue dogs sniffed through the rubble of the Twin Towers a decade ago. Of more than 100, only about a dozen survive, and most are...
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Oil and Water: The Spoils of the Libyan War
The real battle over Libya’s future has less to do with opposing political factions than with which foreign players will gain control of the country’s natural resources–oil, natural gas, and water....
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Morgan Freeman: Tea Party’s Racist Attack on Obama
Their [the Tea Party]stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term,” Freeman noted. “What underlines that? ‘Screw the country. We’re going to...
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The Cost of Prisons
In “It Takes a Village,” an op-ed column in Friday’s New York Times, Charles Blow writes about the Dorothy Day Apartments in West Harlem: Well, the cost of the building plus renovations was $17...
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U.S. Senator Talks Up War with Pakistan
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a leading figure on the Senate Armed Services Committee, talked openly on “Fox News Sunday” about the possibility of war with Pakistan. As usual, it...
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The Myth of the Greedy Geezer
The following appeared today as an opinion piece on Al Jazeera English. Old people are becoming everyone’s favourite scapegoat for America’s economic woes. Among the growing ranks of self-styled...
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The Future of Old Age in America
Note: James Ridgeway wrote this article as part of a MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellowship, a program of the Gerontological Society of America and New America Media. The article first...
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The Disappearance of Unsilent Generation
Some of you may have looked for Unsilent Generation in the past few days, and instead come upon an unfamiliar site welcoming you to the German version of Unsilent Generation. (Willkommen zur deutschen...
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