A woman loved by millions: Rosa Luxemburg
The remains of the small middle-aged woman were found in June; her brutalized body had been dumped into the Berlin canal in January. That was in 1919. Ninety years later many Germans and people on every continent still speak her name — Rosa Luxemburg — with real affection.
Letters to the Editor
Lessons from Massachusetts Poverty and the media Cuba’s 50th Recommended: ‘Waltz with Bashir’
Afghanistan: war is not the answer
The good news: President Obama believes military action alone won’t bring peace to Afghanistan. “We’re going to have to use diplomacy; we’re going to have to use development,” he said in a recent television interview. He added that his administration is undertaking a comprehensive review of U.S. policy there.
State of the union
President Barack Obama’s address to Congress, Feb. 24, was both sober and inspiring.
Animal magnetism
With a view to prevent crocodiles from returning to residential neighborhoods, Florida wildlife managers have temporarily affixed magnets to the reptiles' heads in order to disrupt their homing ability.
The progressive approach to fiscal responsibility
Fiscal responsibility, the code word for balancing the budget, is on everyone's lips in Washington these days. With a federal budget deficit close to $2 trillion inherited from the Bush administration, the Obama White House is eager to build a consensus in Congress for reducing the deficit, shifting budget priorities and reforming the process of federal government appropriations.
Seeking Earth-like planets with alien life in galaxy
NASA's Kepler spacecraft is ready to be moved to the launch pad and will soon begin a journey to search for worlds that could potentially host life, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said in a statement.
Nuclear wake-up call
Kate Hudson, chair of the London-based Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, issued a grave warning after the collision of a British and a French nuclear-armed submarine patrolling the mid-Atlantic a couple of weeks ago.
Newsweeks socialism
Newsweek’s Feb. 16 issue features the provocative cover story, “We are all socialists now.” What a change. After almost two decades of being told, “We are all capitalists,” people who are losing their jobs, their homes and their health care won’t buy it any more.
Black-and-white TV
Forty-five short years ago I sat at my TV And in that grainy image, I witnessed tyranny.
