Herb Kohn remembers the night 70 years ago when Nazi troopers stepped into his family’s apartment in Frankfurt on Main, Germany, shoved his mother to the floor and demanded that any men between 16 and 60 years old come out.
“My father came out of the back. He was 38. We didn’t know anything about where [...]

How to be happy. That’s really what it all comes down to, isn’t it? Even if life has been chugging along at a fairly joyous pace, most of us would admit a little more happy couldn’t hurt. Often all that requires is a gentle reminder of how good we already have it or a simple [...]

These are the pertinent excerpts from Powell’s Meet the Press appearance:
I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, “Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.” Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, [...]

If John McCain pulls an upset, the world may gain one more grocery bagger
After Tuesday, one way or the other, some pollsters and pundits will have some explaining to do.
It may be those who conducted surveys showing the presidential race tightening to a virtual dead heat in recent days.
Or it may be those in the [...]

The 21st century began late for America, on 11 September 2001. Before that day, the US still defined its role in the world with reference to ideological triumph in the Cold War that had dominated the century just passed. It was the planet’s only superpower and saw itself as a popular champion of global democracy. [...]