10/03/2010 - 13.45 

Recently, a wave of earthquakes hit a series of countries. The Haiti tragedy was particularly hard, but the subsequent earthquake in Chile was even stronger, joined with a tsunami. We publish a report by Daniel Silva, an eyewitness of the tragedy, from the days immediately after the earthquake in Chile.

10/03/2010 - 2.00 

The proposal to include a course called Reason and Faith in the core curriculum-reform started a battle between supporters and opponents. The latter consider rational inquiry the only reasonable path to truth, but the claims of faith to be a path to knowledge are quite reasonable as well.

09/03/2010 - 10.15 

The great and powerful banking institutions have failed, and now exist only by their privileged access to the public purse. Yet there is a bank that did not fail, that has no difficulty in finding borrowers and in getting repaid. That bank is the Grameen Bank, the institution that practically invented micro-finance.

08/03/2010 - 23.50 

By creating settings which seem to be a private place among friends, the social media encourage backstage behavior – then put it on the frontstage. This way they cut back on the places where we can relax in semi-privacy, and they give us an everpresent audience.

08/03/2010 - 0.30 

Democrats and Republicans are at a stand-off over health care reform. President Obama is now endorsing a controversial “up or down vote”, also known as “reconciliation”, and there are more obstacles along the way.

05/03/2010 - 2.00 

The Tea Party movement will not forever be estranged from the political process. Its declared goal are the midterm elections of November 2010, and, finally, the Presidential Election of 2012. Common sense tells us that even grassroots need to grow up some day.