Privileged White Girl Problems

By Tamara Shayne Kagel
Published on December 9, 2011

Free Will and Resolutions

By Misha Henckel
Published on December 30, 2010

Bush Takes Wary Steps in Middle East

By Ron Kampeas
Published on March 3, 2005

Congress officially is lined up behind President Bush's grand vision of Palestinian democracy -- but it wants details along with that vision.

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives' powerful International Relations Committee met last week, right after two congressional resolutions overwhelmingly endorsing Bush's call for a Palestinian state were passed.

Your Letters

Published on September 16, 2004

Your Letters

Make Resolutions That Will Stick

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on September 16, 2004

We have spoken slander; we have acted presumptuously; we have practiced deceit. Each year we beat our chest and resolve to change.

Texas GOP Pushes ‘Christian Nation’

By Cathy Young
Published on July 22, 2004

After a short respite from the fight over the Pledge of Allegiance, the Republican Party has once again thrown itself into the fray over issues of church and state. This time it's the Republican Party of Texas, President Bush's home state, which has approved a plank in its platform affirming that "the United States of America is a Christian nation."

U.N. Failing in Conflict-Resolution Role

By James D. Besser
Published on July 22, 2004

All of this comes to mind in the face of this week's effort by the Palestinians to generate anti-Israel resolutions in the General Assembly in response to the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) -- the judicial but injudicious arm of the United Nations -- that Israel's controversial new security barrier is illegal and must be torn down.

The Headache of Resolutions

By Jane Ulman
Published on January 1, 2004

Blame it on the Mesopotamians. About 4,000 or 5,000 years ago, they came up with the meshuggeneh idea of New Year's resolutions.

And what was their most common pledge? To return borrowed farm equipment. "That would be a pickax or a sickle," says Danny, 12, who studied the Mesopotamians last year in his ancient civilization class.

But today we can't simply return some borrowed tool, toy or casserole dish. No, we North Americans feel compelled to annually reinvent ourselves as perfect physical, intellectual and emotional beings. We feel compelled to promise to shape up, to learn Aramaic or read the 100 top English-language novels, to be more patient.

New Year’s Resolutions

By Jane Ulman
Published on December 28, 2000

Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians originated the ritual of making New Year's resolutions. Most of them made the identical promise -- to return borrowed farm equipment.