An Avant-Gardistâs View of America, as Seen From the Back Seat
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Erik Friedlander offers an idiosyncratic version of American roots music, with steady, folklike themes that unfold like a trip down an endless highway.
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The nation is emerging from the 2004 presidential election with two very different portraits of itself sketched by two very different halves of its population.
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Aid is proving crucial - and may lift America's image.
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Paranoia, frustration, fear and even rage: not the typical emotions Americans experience when exercising their otherwise satisfying civic duty in the voting booth.
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TWO AMERICAS: The presidential election showed two very different pictures of the nation as envisioned by supporters of President Bush and Democrat John Kerry,
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Jeremy Rifkin's book unabashedly proclaims the superiority of the European model over the American one as a guide for the future.
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NEW YORK It isn't easy being the conscience for corporate America.
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USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but donÂ´t really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their smog statistics shown in pie charts.
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At a time when the country is faced with a new tangle of problems, the return of the â80s action hero suggests that some Americans, particularly men, are looking to revel in the vestigial pleasures of older times and seemingly simpler ways.
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Well, both do, actually. But there are some discernible differences in brain activity which may just explain why a Democrat sees the world one way, and a Republican sees it another.
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Opportunity beckons as never before, as immigrants expand the tastes of mainstream America.
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It is safe to say that a world without safe, abundant and easily accessible water is hard for most Americans to imagine. The same goes for life without private, relatively clean places in which to go to the toilet.
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The Americans have run out of explanations, but not excuses.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically "...newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies".. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural; especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization. read more
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There was a time the words âMade in Chinaâ immediately evoked âshoddy.â Lately, many Americans are thinking âdanger.â
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John Edwards is right. There are two Americas, and they don&#39;t intersect. They don&#39;t even appear to understand each other. When I woke up on Nov. 3 and switched on the radio, that realization hit me like a ton of bricks.
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There is a flip side to the American dream, medical researchers have discovered. Moving to the United States can make you fat. A study of immigrants&#39; health shows that