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Taken too far, privacy rights endanger lives

In the very complicated, recent story line at Rose Medical Center (Denver) and Audubon Ambulatory Surgery Center (Colorado Springs), at which a surgical technician...

Freeze frame at a millennium’s first decade’s end

Who would have thought in 1999 that Generations magazine would cover age anxieties of baby boomers? or the soothing effects of yoga (people need it)? or the rising...

Ricci v. DeStefano rightly overturned

TALK of “disparate impacts” and “Title VII” and “validated tests” and “race as a barrier to opportunity” can get pretty theoretical. Yet, how much more practical...

Angel of Financial Death, blandly smiling

BERNIE Madoff, we hardly knew ye. True, we know of your deeds well enough, and of the economic and personal devastation you visited upon so many, so expertly, like a...

Universals and particulars in the debate on same-sex marriage

Around the debate over same-sex marriage is one judgement that is universally shared by the proponents and the opponents alike: the purest focus on the topic of morality...

Obama and Netanyahu: Who pressured whom?

Benjamin Netanyahu uttered the “two states for two peoples” line, finally. It was inevitable. And whatever it means politically for Israel’s relationship with the US,...

A rare opportunity for the US to help forge a new Iran

Barack Obama has been in office for six months talking about the dialogue he’s going to have with Iran. What dialogue? In six months Obama has not managed to schedule...

Obama’s speech to the Arab world

President Obama has a way with words and a beautiful ability to set a mood. That he certainly did in his speech to the Muslim world, June 4. He was […]

Holocaust Museum shooting

This Wednesday, close to press time, a white supremacist exchanged gunfire with a security guard at the US Holocaust Museum. The guard’s quick response no doubt...

Why is Obama hassling Israel on settlements when Israel already ceded the point nine years ago?

One image sticks forever in our mind: The lush greenhouses of Gaza, erected and nourished by Israelis, turned over to the Palestinians in 2005, and promptly burned to...