On the heels of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, a partnership spearheaded by the 92nd Street Y in New York City launched Giving Tuesday, turning the idea behind all those one-day consumer events on its head.
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Study: Men and Women Benefit in Different Ways From AA
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) helps alcoholics to become sober, but the program may affect men and women differently.
Mellow in Seattle: Washington State’s First Day of Legal Pot
Lots of questions still need to be ironed out but recreational marijuana smoke now wafts legitimately through the air of the Evergreen State
In Pearl Harbor’s Wake…
The attack on Pearl Harbor was brought home to most Americans in grainy black-and-white photographs. The photos galvanized the nation’s will, in LIFE magazine and elsewhere. The picture magazine also covered what happened in …
What Just Happened at the Naval Postgraduate School?
Last week the Secretary of the Navy dismissed the top officials at my school – one of the sadder events in its century-plus history.
How did this happen?
And more broadly, just what goes on at the Naval Postgraduate …
U.S. Army to Asia: “We’re Back”
CAMP SENDAI, Japan – For evidence that the U.S. rebalancing in Asia is more than rhetoric, take a look at the shoulder patches that U.S. troops are wearing at a major war exercise here this week: the 25th Infantry Division, 8th …
Pearl Harbor 2.0
The “infamy” of December 7, 1941, is deeper than most Americans have ever imagined. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was almost certainly the result of a Soviet plot—“Operation Snow”—carried out by Harry Dexter …
That’s Ms. Bubblehead to You, Sailor
Lt j.g. Marquette Leveque gets her “dolphins” from husband Luke making her one of the Navy’s first fully-qualified female submariners.
Getting It Wrong at 7th Fleet
What is happening in the 7th Fleet, homeported in Japan, but which includes the entirety of the Pacific Ocean and the Far East — including naval personnel stationed in Guam, Singapore and South Korea — is just one of those …
Today Is December 7
For those of a certain generation, the date brings back memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 71 years ago today.
It was an important date for my parents, just as 9/11 is for my generation, and for my …
About that U.S. Drone Allegedly Captured by Iran
Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards claimed to have “hunted down” an American drone over Iranian airspace, but there may be a lot of internal politics involved in the all-out propaganda fest launched on state media to declare …
Her Excellency Wears Prada: Could Anna Wintour Be the Next U.S. Ambassador to Britain?
There’s a rumor in Washington that the United Kingdom may soon be welcoming a very stylish emissary.
Building a Smarter, Smaller Military
Fact: The fiscal crisis will compel reductions in defense spending. More important fact: How do we do it in ways that make sense?
Economists argue that economic crises do nations a service by clearing the way for innovation, …