Today was not a good Friday for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Across Syria, tens of thousands of people once again streamed into the streets
Why Syria’s President Doesn’t Like Fridays
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Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Paradox of Power
Even if the television tube and a ubiquitous Texan had yet to be conceived, the President of the U.S.
Election 2000: Bush’s Contested Lead
Twas election night all over again.
A New Clean Economy — With Old Sources of Energy
Since his election, President Barack Obama has emphasized the importance of developing new sources of energy and cultivating the jobs that will come with them. “I am convinced that whoever builds a clean energy economy, whoever is at the forefront of that, is going to own the 21st-century global economy,” Obama told a bipartisan meeting of governors at the White House on Wednesday
Was Lincoln a Racist?
Silly me. I had naively assumed that when a writer as well known and respected as Lerone Bennett Jr
Europe’s Family Feud
The arrogant superpower demands fealty from the lesser states, and quashes any back talk.
The Arab Spring: Is This the Syrian Regime’s Playbook?
A man in a white shirt lies motionless, apparently dead, on an otherwise empty road, his arms and legs splayed at awkward angles. Intense gunfire crackles as four black-clad anti-riot policemen in helmets and shields run up to the body, several beat it with their batons before dragging it along the asphalt by its feet
Rage, Rap and Revolution: Inside the Arab Youth Quake
At 6:30 p.m.
The Pioneer HARVEY MILK
After Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet, thousands of astounded people wrote to him. “I thank God,” wrote a 68-year-old lesbian, “I have lived long enough to see my kind emerge from the shadows and join the human race.” Sputtered another writer: “Maybe, just maybe, some of the more hostile in the district may take some potshots at you–we hope!!!” There was a time when it was impossible for people–straight or gay–even to imagine a Harvey Milk
Time’s Person of the Year: You
The “Great Man” theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men.” He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.