If Barack Obama wants to help end the genocide in Darfur, he doesn't have to look far for ideas of how to accomplish that. President Bush and his top aides have been given, and ignored, a menu of options for tough steps to squeeze Sudan — even destroy its air force — and those will soon be on the new president's desk.
Everyone knows what must be done if there is to be a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel’s forceful response to rocket attacks from Gaza does not change that.
One of the chants to come from the Vietnam anti-war movement was the memorable “make love, not war.” That sentiment has resurfaced in a different but equally stimulating context, thanks to some creative people within U.S. intelligence.
One day this fall, I spent the better part of an afternoon strapped to a chair, electrodes all over my body, with an 85-pound Indian woman superheating a metal plate, touching it to my skin and asking me to tell her (1) when I felt pain and (2) when I wanted her to stop.
You know you're in the throes of hard economic times when one of the most talked-about gift ideas of the holiday season is body spray from Burger King. You heard me right. There's a new burger in town, and it's not a burger at all. It's a fragrance called Flame by BK (“pour hommes,” presumably).