Insight on the News

Dear Readers, One of the jobs of a news organization is to follow up on what happened to a story. This gives context to "old news" and often helps us understand news of the immediate moment. What brings this to mind are stories inside by INSIGHT'S...

"Big Food Fight" [July 15] was a great article. I can only summarize by saying that our nation is turning away from holding individuals accountable for their irresponsible behavior. My father died of lung cancer after 30 years of smoking. I have...

New York Mets outfielder Joe McEwing didn't have it easy during his first full season in the big leagues. Not for the first six weeks, anyway. "I had to get Eric Davis coffee every day when he walked into the clubhouse" recalls McEwing, who came...

If ever there was justification for unleashing the law's hounds of hell, complicity in harming a child is it. Few are sympathizing with the church hierarchy who looked the other way from the pedophilia and pederasty in their midst. But it is the...

Joe Criste and Rob Barrett have made a mess in Julia Child's kitchen. The two exhibit specialists at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History have torn apart--very delicately--the 89-year-old chef's famous kitchen at her old house in...

The Bush administration has been "as bad, if not worse" than the Clinton administration when it comes to the transfer of sensitive technologies to the People's Republic of China (PRC), claims Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a nonpartisan...

Animal research has played a vital role in virtually every major medical advance of the last century, for both human and animal health. From antibiotics to blood transfusions, from dialysis to organ transplantation, from vaccinations to chemotherapy,...

At this time last year, many airport screeners were unable to speak or read English, pilots were unarmed and only random pieces of luggage were screened for explosives. Then on Sept. 11, commercial airliners were used as missiles to kill 2,830 in...

This magazine generally favors progress, especially when it means a new and easier way of doing something that once was a truly arduous and tedious task. Few things recently have so impressed for the people as a new development from Australia, which...

When he was confirmed in 1997 as President Bill Clinton's second commissioner of the IRS, Charles Rossotti promised a new agency that would emphasize service and uphold taxpayer rights. Speaking to the Senate Finance Committee right after it had...

In the war against terrorism, just whose side is big business on? Surprisingly, perhaps, big business' Washington mouthpieces--including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the National Restaurant Association--increasingly...

The celebration of Independence Day took on new meaning this year in the horrific light of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 as public celebrations were surrounded with stepped-up security and red-level alerts. As each day pushes Americans further...

This term, the U.S. Supreme Court revamped death row, revolutionized school policies and expanded state rights, but 15 decisions that might have been expected to be decided 5-4 came in at 6-3, as the usual alliances subtly shifted. The most stable...

The minister whose 1954 sermon helped put "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance believes its elimination would amount to "the god of big money defeating" monotheistic faith. According to the Rev. George Docherty, 91, former pastor at the New York...