ILF POST

By Harlan Cleveland Even for Americans who were alive on October 4th, 1957, it’s hard to remember the sense of shock and awe when we heard that the Soviet Union had successfully launched its Sputnik — the first orbital spaceshot that put a human being into outer space. [...]

By Gloria Feldt Note: given the news about the FDA’s current proposal to allow plan B Emergency Contraception (EC) to be sold over the counter–BUT with requirements that women under age 18 must have a prescription and that pharmacists must keep all EC behind the counter thus making it more difficult for women of any [...]

By Ralph Keyes I don’t often agree with George Will, but nodded in agreement when he recently observed about the winner of Connecticut’s Democratic senatorial primary: “There you had Mr. Lamont on the night of his victory with Jesse Jackson gloating over one shoulder, and Al Sharpton gloating over the other shoulder [...]

>By Charles Lindblom A number of commentators have been telling us that the Democratic Party has become “a gaggle of special and narrow interests.” Many democrats, Howard Dean among them, believe that it is “a group of constituencies instead of a party.” Needs looking into.
We live and work in a big social [...]

By Harlan Cleveland When it’s this hot for this long,(101 degrees in Northern Virginia the day this is written),I’m forcibly reminded of my first brush with global warming, just thirty years ago — before all the arguments and long before Al Gore’s slide show.
“It’s happening, and we humans are making [...]

By Mary Catherine Bateson Aging? Who wants to think about that? Probably most people don’t want to, but they do, usually with anxiety and without bringing much intelligence to bear. There are those reminders that keep you from forgetting for too long. A few gray hairs, a receding hairline, a forgotten errand. [...]

By Ralph Keyes In 1968, I cast my first vote for president. That vote went to comedian-crusader Dick Gregory. At the time I was 23 and Gregory’s positions were closer to mine than those of Richard Nixon or Hubert Humphrey, so of course I’d want to vote for him right? What difference [...]