Apocalypse Now, Iraq Edition
I wanted to offer a wry chuckle before we headed into the heavy stuff about Iraq, so I tried to start this article with a suitably ironic formulation. You know,…
Factory Farming is the Overlooked Enemy
By Wayne Pacelle guest columnist for the Star-Ledger World leaders gathered Tuesday in New York to identify global climate change solutions, as part of Climate Week. But will these luminaries…
Deconstructing the 5 most ridiculous myths about Barack Obama
I've spent the last four years covering the Obama presidency and tweeting about it on a daily basis from the White House briefing room. And the Twitter messages I get…
The Secret to Winning an Argument Is Ridiculously Simple
If you want to change someone's opinion, ask them how they would do something instead of why. The insight comes from University of Colorado psychologist Philip M. Fernbach in a paper with the telling title "Political…
Inspection- “Everyone I Know is Going Away”
by Ken Carman Isn't it odd how some of what parents, friends and former lovers say to us slips away: becomes almost invisible, silent... yet some seeps deep into our…