Events Aren't Important to the Environment

The most important environmental event of the 1980s? There's such a rich list to choose from, mostly disasters. Chernobyl? Certainly high on the list...

score:9, 12/26/1989, ,

Hands Across White River Junction

The official Hands Across America line passed 200 miles south of Vermont, but people up here wanted to express their concern for the homeless and...

score:9, 05/29/1986, ,

Tax Reform: More Questions Than Answers

It takes political courage to reform a tax system. The deepest, most difficult questions of democracy get raised. What is government really for? How much...

score:9, 08/14/1986, ,

All the White House is a Stage

Will Rogers said it's not what we DON'T KNOW that will hurt us; it's what we KNOW that ain't so. Politics...

score:9, 07/17/1986, ,

Portugal's Generation of Hope

How is it that every now and then a society lets a whole generation get the idea that it can really solve problems? Portugal, though...

score:9, 07/24/1986, ,

Cory Aquino -- a New Kind of Leader

"Why have the media in your country started saying negative things about Cory Aquino?" asked my friend Maria, visiting from the Philippines. "They say she...

score:9, 07/31/1986, ,

My Candidate for the Next President of the United States

Up here in New Hampshire what we call Silly Season has started early. Jack Kemp, Pete DuPont, and Gary Hart have been going around shaking...

score:9, 01/22/1986, ,

Nuclear Weapons After Reykjavik -- Join the Debate

Since Reykjavik the superpowers have gone right on insulting each other. They have expelled each other's diplomats. The Soviets have revoked their nuclear testing...

score:9, 12/11/1986, ,

Why Would Anyone Want to Play Starpower?

When leaders in socialist countries wonder why their people are disaffected, when my conservative friends tell me how lazy and undeserving the poor are, when...

score:9, 12/04/1986, ,

We Loved Ronald Reagan So Much

Watching the nation writhe over another crisis of the Presidency, I am reminded of a chilling story called "We Love Glenda So Much" by the...

score:9, 01/01/1987, ,

The Gift the Philippines Can Give the World

Corazon Aquino's determined face on Time's cover as Woman of the Year reminded me of the face of another Filipino woman. Her name...

score:9, 01/29/1987, ,

Peru's Young President Balances on the High Wire

In the circus of politics, some national leaders are strong-men, some are clowns. Very few are high-wire artists, taking on the most challenging...

score:9, 02/26/1987, ,

Rambo Still Rules in the White House

There was reason to hope that after the Iran-contra affair the Administration would deal with foreign policy in a manner a bit less swashbuckling...

score:9, 04/02/1987, ,

Gary Hart -- the Hound is Brother to the Fox

It's awful to watch the pack close in on the fox right in your own back yard. Until Gary Hart arrived in Hanover last...

score:9, 05/14/1987, ,

We Don't Need Leadership to Know Right from Wrong

"Assaulted by sleaze, scandals, and hypocrisy, America searches for its moral bearings," the cover of the May 25 Time magazine says. The essay inside describes...

score:9, 06/04/1987, ,

Ronald Reagan in the Shadow of Thomas Jefferson

When a President summons the image of a great predecessor to cast a gleam of glory onto a present action, watch out. The current incumbent...

score:9, 07/09/1987, ,

The Philippines After the Revolution -- One Step at a Time

This year we're celebrating the 200th anniversary of our constitution a full eleven years after the 200th anniversary of our revolution. It took the...

score:9, 07/23/1987, ,

Incinerator Blues, Part Three: Who Do You Trust?

As I go back and forth from the pro- to the anti-incinerator side of the controversy in my valley, I can't find any...

score:9, 09/17/1987, ,

Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine

The Fairness Doctrine is gone. Most people don't even know for sure what the Fairness Doctrine was, much less that it has been repealed...

score:9, 11/12/1987, ,

Not More Simple, Not More Fair

Remember how the Great 1986 Tax Reform was going to make taxes more simple and more fair? That's what the President and Congress told...

score:9, 02/25/1988, ,

What is This Thing Called Leadership?

"Leadership," the Presidential candidates are saying again and again and again. "You can count on me for strong leadership." Leadership is a perfect word for...

score:9, 02/11/1988, ,

Call off the Campaign, Our Minds Are Made up

Scientific advances have a way of changing the world sneakily, while we're all off paying attention to something else. When the first paper on...

score:9, 01/28/1988, ,

The New American Scarcity

We can't afford to keep the post offices open full time. We can't fix the roads or educate our children properly. Whenever a...

score:9, 04/07/1988, ,

Alaska Oil Vs. Alaska Wildlife: Many Voices

"The North Slope is a flat, crummy place. Only for oil would anyone want to go there," says an official of the Arco Oil & Gas...

score:9, 05/19/1988, ,

Why Choosing a President Can Change a Nation

How can the simple change of one leader make much difference to a huge nation? Here we are, 240 million of us, toiling along, fairly...

score:9, 05/26/1988, ,