Jane Lynch: Hollywood Won't Cast Gay Leading Actors
It may, and probably should, come to pass that the events of the past week will result in a thoughtful examination of the incident, leading to the patient and methodical crafting of sensible policy that might help to prevent such incidents in the future. And it might be a difficult road to tread -- sometimes there's just nothing you can do to fix something, no matter how hard you want to. But a slow and thoughtful process that goes nowhere is infinitely preferable to rushing to pass the first crazy law that you barfed out of your brainpan while stewing in a broth of worry, adrenaline, and panic.
When we remember Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dwight D. Eisenhower this weekend, we also should remember their alarm bells about a bloated military establishment, which ring even truer today.
As Gabrielle Giffords opens her eyes, I pray that this will become a moment when we all open our own.
It was that unassuming role -- father and husband -- which enabled Obama to turn his Tucson speech into a memorable moment of healing and hope.
When President Obama spoke of empathy during his first year in office, he was pummeled in the popular press as being weak. What is there about the concept of empathy that conjures up so much derision?
To once again bail out the bankers, this time by changing real estate law in a way that hasn't been done since the 1670s, would be a far bigger deal than even the trillions in bailout dollars the TARP and Fed gave these banks in 2008/9.
SCR 1325 calls for women to participate equally at decision-making levels in all processes of peacemaking. But in more than a decade since SCR 1325 was enacted, it has never been put to the test.
Despite evidence of widespread interconnected mortgage lending, securitization, and foreclosure wrong-doing across the financial sector, there are no meaningful felony indictments.
This is an extraordinary movie allegedly based on the Durst real estate family of New York. It's a bizarre story, and the acting of the principals, Kirsten Dunst, Ryan Gosling and Frank Langella, is terrific and, on occasion, terrifying.
Was the Arizona shooting in any way Sarah Palin's fault? I doubt it. But in the aftermath, she faced an important test of character and blew it. A misstep in the audition process that will haunt her all the way through the callbacks.
This was only one of a series of conciliatory moves made today by what promises to be a kinder, gentler Fox News. A network spokesman said that starting this week, Fox would air one minute of civil discourse every Sunday at 4 AM.
The lack of civil discourse and extremes of competing ideology is not the underlying problem, but a symptom of objective difference of interest. We're not one nation; there really are at the least two Americas.
Taleb has been criticized, but he tells it as he sees it, whether or not everyone agrees.
Christina Taylor Green's activism and passionate concern for her country is something we can all embrace to help save other lives from being lost. The critical condition of mental health care is the "real" elephant in our shared house.
As Andrew Cuomo takes over the reins of New York, he's being watched by a very proud father. But don't let Mario Cuomo hear you use the word proud.
To honor the memory of Martin Luther King, we need to stress the importance of community service. The idea of America's Sunday Supper is to initiate conversation focused on pressing social issues we face.
Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help. So to learn about gun laws and the 2nd Amendment, I went to Twitter to find enlightenment.
The planet has a fever and it's getting worse.
At a time when we seem at greatest peril of ripping ourselves irreparably asunder, Barack Obama's deft rhetorical genius pulled us together yesterday in a way that perfectly symbolizes what the promise of America is all about.
Today, we have an opportunity to assess the progress that we have made in rebuilding Haiti, the extraordinary challenges that remain, and the areas in which improvement is greatly needed.
It would be hard to think of a more moving and dignified speech, particularly when set against the foil of Sarah Palin's self-absorbed effusions.
I actually agree with the Sarah Palin who said that words aren't solely responsible for acts of violence. But when she so often contradicts herself, it's difficult to tell whether Sarah Palin agrees with Sarah Palin.
High-capacity ammunition magazines are the common thread that runs through most mass shootings: giving attackers the ability to fire numerous bullets without reloading. Tucson was the latest in a long, tragic saga.
Imagine working for one of the most successful beauty companies in the world and imagine choosing to give it all up at the height of the financial crisis. A risky move, one that handbag designer Dareen Hakim says it was all worth it.
While Eisenhower was certainly dead-on about the big picture of the military-industrial complex, we can imagine even he might be surprised by the dirty details of how that "complex" has evolved since his farewell speech in 1961.
At a forum sponsored by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the president of NRDC said their report had found a "systemic problem" and explained this oil spill was not an isolated incident.
