| Sep 13, 2010 | Peace / SecurityUntil 9/11, most Americans didn’t believe that a terrorist attack could ever happen on U.S. soil. Yet one had occurred just a generation earlier–on September 21, 1976 on Embassy Row in Washington. One of the victims was New Jersey-born Ronni Karpen...
| | Economy / BusinessStores are already full of Halloween costumes and scary stuff for October 31. TV stations are gearing up for reruns of “Nightmare on Elm Street” and its many sequels, when Freddy Krueger will revisit us again and again. But what really ought to terrify...
| | Rights / DemocracyJust recently, Ivan Nikolov was released from jail after living a nightmare. The 22-year-old Russian immigrant was arrested on May 5, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided his family’s home. Although Nikolov’s mother was married to...
| | Peace / SecurityAfter 20 hearings and more than four months of debate, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is gearing up to vote on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed in April. New START...
| | Rights / DemocracyIt seems to be the season of rallies–tea party rallies, 9/11 rallies, 9/12 rallies, Glenn Beck rallies. I’m all for it; I love rallies. Beck’s was the most controversial and perhaps the biggest. We’ll never know how big. Some estimated it at...
