Analysis
Afghanistan: war is not the answer
February 27, 2009The 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...
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State of the union
February 27, 2009President Barack Obama’s address to Congress, Feb. 24, was both sober and inspiring. He spelled out the deep economic crisis we are in and blamed decades of trickle-down economics, loss of jobs, bank deregulation, unpayable debt...
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Animal magnetism
February 27, 2009With 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.
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Charles Darwin at 200: Solidarity is the best survival strategy
February 26, 2009The 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, Feb. 12, brought back memories of a college course I took in which the topic was “social Darwinism,” a philosophy that exalted dog-eat-dog greed in the name of “survival...
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The progressive approach to fiscal responsibility
February 26, 2009Fiscal 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...
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