When Oedipus, the tragic hero of Greek mythology, realized in agony and shame the calamity he had brought his city, he could not bear to see the results of his hubris. Overwhelmed with the knowledge of his wrongdoings, Oedipus stabbed his own eyes out, and went into exile.
Many adults blame videogames for their children’s poor behavior and grades; they feel that violent video games will most likely result in violent children. Videogames do not spark violent behavior, though they may encourage the idea unintentionally. It is the duty of parents to make sure their children can distinguish reality from fantasy.
The rumble of a train comes through the window. In Berlin there is always the sound of a train somewhere.
It hardly qualifies as breaking news that Europe is in the middle of a deep and protracted economic contraction. When a story, no matter how shocking, goes on for years, the natural inclination is to let it fade to the background of our awareness. But a visit to Spain — even to one of the cities where the economic tragedy does a good job of hiding behind hordes of tourists and beautiful architecture — is a reminder of the extent of the disaster that has befallen Europe, until recently one of the world’s most prosperous regions.
A bill requiring judges to sentence youth convicted of homicide to at least 50 years in prison has put the Florida Senate on a collision course with the courts — unless Florida gets it right.
So it turns out that Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and, before a group of leading Senate Republicans decided that she was evil incarnate, a top contender to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, had nothing to do with formulating the White House’s response to the fatal attacks last year at the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Allow me to agree with Republicans and members of the media who are up in arms over revelations that low level staffers of the Internal Revenue Service took a shortcut in cutting through the flood of applications for 501(c)4 status starting in 2010. The IRS has admitted the staffers inappropriately flagged applicants with “tea party,” “patriots” or “9/12” (presumably, for Glenn Beck’s “9/12 Movement”) in their names for extra scrutiny.
Those who oppose greater U.S. involvement in Syria were no doubt relieved at the announcement that Moscow and Washington want to convene an international conference to end the country’s civil war.
OSLO, Norway At the time of Fidel Castro’s takeover of Cuba in 1959, “separate but equal” was the norm in much of the Western world. Castro won plaudits from early supporters for banning the practice of separate facilities on the island, promising a raceless, equal society under the new regime. Today, the regime instead targets any Afro-Cuban who dares challenge the historical fallacy that blacks on the island have fared better under the Revolution.
Well, this is a fine mess.
The American Psychiatric Association’s latest handbook — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) — is about to be published. It is the handbook of mental health and if you’re not in it you are among the fortunate few. Even though the hour is late, I beseech the DSM’s publishers to consider one additional entry, the seriousness of which will be apparent to anyone who watches Fox News: Benghazi Syndrome.
And so, what Jack McMahon audaciously called a racist prosecution, wherein a black man in Philadelphia was being called to account for ending the lives of countless nameless black babies, has ended in a righteous verdict: guilty, guilty, and again, guilty.
How’s your wife? It depends — compared to whom?
Jason Richwine is a type in American politics.
On the warm, clear morning of 9/11, with the towers still ablaze, a workmate and I set out on foot from our office in midtown Manhattan toward what later became known as Ground Zero. This was years before smart phones. With electricity out in much of the downtown, people we passed had turned to a decades-old news source: They huddled around the open doors of parked cars and listened to the radios.
If you need more evidence that much of the U.S. military treats sexual assault like one big frathouse joke, look no further than what allegedly happened outside a bar near Washington in the early morning hours of Cinco de Mayo.
Next weekend marks the 15th anniversary of the Cuba Nostalgia Fair, a three-day event that seeks to bring pre-Castro Cuba to life through a lively combination of art, performances, food and a strong emphasis on Cuba’s pre-revolutionary achievements.
Eliécer Ávila is up with the roosters every morning, shoveling pig manure in the modest farm in the province of Las Tunas, Cuba, where this graduate of the country’s only computer science university raises pigs for a living. He sold nine in late January just before he left the island for the first time to visit friends in Sweden.
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