For those of us who live in Washington, D.C., the debates in Congress that project themselves across the nation often have more than a little irony.
Columns
Joyce Hollyday 4-01-1989
It requires a four-wheel-drive vehicle to get to this isolated and beautiful corner of the earth.
Jim Rice 4-01-1989
Six years ago President Ronald Reagan launched the so-called Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, proclaiming his objective of a "peace shield" that would protect the people
Joyce Hollyday 4-01-1989
On Friday, February 3, Frances Skolnick received a phone call from a reporter
Danny Duncan Collum 3-01-1989
With the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, terrorism, as human tragedy, media sensation, and political catch-all, is back with a vengeance.
Brian Jaudon 3-01-1989
The accident at Three Mile Island on March 28, 1979, was followed by a decade of decline for the nation's nuclear power industry.
Jim Wallis 2-01-1989
We do it every year. For a decade now, Sojourners Community has gone on retreat together over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Danny Duncan Collum 2-01-1989
In the waning weeks of 1988, a wave of shocks hit the Middle East. The source of the shock wave was not an earthquake or, for once, an aerial bombardment. The earth, in fact, stood still.
Ed Spivey Jr. 2-01-1989
After a spirited but futile bid for the presidency, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis now has more time to pursue one of his favorite (though little-known) pastimes.
Vicki Kemper 1-01-1989
Even as more than 60,000 of its people have been killed and one-fifth of its population displaced, the suffering of war-ravaged El Salvador has been eclipsed in public consciousness.
Brian Jaudon 1-01-1989
Ever since the clandestine Manhattan Project began in 1942, when America's brightest scientists were recruited by the U.S. government to design and build the first nuclear bomb.
Jim Wallis 1-01-1989
It was Sunday, and with just two days left before the election, I couldn't put off an "election sermon" any longer. It was a depressing topic.
Joyce Hollyday 1-01-1989
When my niece Anika turned 2 last August, I gave her a picture book about the circus.