Boxing’s most influential: Nos. 1-50

Here's one man's opinion of the 50 most influential people in boxing history.

E.J. Dionne Jr.: On missing ‘big labor'

WASHINGTON — Watching the great civil rights march on television in August 1963, I couldn't help but notice that hundreds carried signs with a strange legend at the top: "UAW Says." UAW was saying "Segregation Disunites the United States," and many other things insisting on equality.

Prepared Remarks at AIAA Space 2010 By NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver

It is in my view precisely by asking what will happen in the next 50 years that drives what should happen in the next few months, and then the next couple of years, because that will lay the framework for probably decades to come.

The Socialist’s Journal: The Trouble With Sincerity

*Sincerity is dangerous. It is a character trait that has a good reputation because it means someone truly believes what they’re saying or doing. We equate being sincere with being genuine, honest, earnest, straightforward, frank, and open. But sincerity’s twin sibling is stubbornness, which is synonymous with being obstinate, inflexible, willful, and intractable. To be [...]

Thriller - The Complete Series

DVD Talk Collector Series Since word of its release leaked eleven months ago, Thriller - The Complete Series has been one of the most highly anticipated DVD releases of 2010, and with good reason. The 1960-62 anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff has acquired an almost legendary status through the years - Stephen King called it "the best horror series ever put on TV," for instance - but until ...

Recognizing the immense contributions of America's unions

Whatever else they achieve, unions remind us of the dignity of all who toil, whatever their social position, color or educational attainments, writes columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. Unions were important co-authors of a social contract that made our country fairer, richer and more productive.