John Adams

Protesters at the Metropolitan Opera

Was the Metropolitan Opera right to stage the allegedly anti-Semitic The Death of Klinghoffer?

Is John Adams’ opera The Death of Klinghoffer anti-semitic? If it is, does that mean it should never be staged? Where is the line between artistic license and political propaganda when a work is this controversial?

Was the Metropolitan Opera right to stage the allegedly anti-Semitic The Death of Klinghoffer?

Why We Cherish Letters

Why We Cherish Letters

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge with David McCullough

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge with David McCullough

As lockout drags on, more regular people finding their paychecks shrinking

As lockout drags on, more regular people finding their paychecks shrinking

U.S. House endorses 'In God We Trust' — but what's its history?

U.S. House endorses 'In God We Trust' — but what's its history?

Classical composers create monuments to 9/11 in music

The tragedy of 9/11 expressed through the works of classical composers, who create 'portable sites of public memory.'

Classical composers create monuments to 9/11 in music

A Force For Nature

For 40 years now, the environment has had a leading advocate. The NRDC or Natural Resources Defense Council has been at the forefront of many environmental battles in the nation. One of its founders, John Adams, chronicles the organization's trials and tr

A Force For Nature

Paul Giamatti

Actor Paul Giamatti explains what it is like to take on the soul of another person.

Paul Giamatti
The World

Letter debate

In response to a new PR campaign by the US Poster Service, Fair Game's Ed Herro and Jessica Vitkus debate the merits of old-fashioned letter writing.

Letter debate
The World

Letter debate

In response to a new PR campaign by the US Poster Service, Fair Game's Ed Herro and Jessica Vitkus debate the merits of old-fashioned letter writing.

Letter debate

How to Move a Movement

John Adams, president and founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, takes a look back at the first Earth Day  ? the same day he opened NRDC for business  ? and how the environmental movement he saw back then was a very different animal from the on

How to Move a Movement