Stories for Dec. 14, 2009

McGinn on the tunnel: does he or doesn't he?

Mon, Dec 14, 9:27 p.m.

The mayor elect sends two signals that he's not exactly sound on the subject, despite the impression he gave in the last days of his campaign. He's playing with political fire.

This kind of thing has got to stop

Mon, Dec 14, 4:54 p.m.

By Daniel Jack Chasan

They shouted at the cop killer to stop. He pulled out a pistol...

It's Canada's Northwest Passage, eh?

Mon, Dec 14, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

The renaming of the fabled sea route is an attempt to capitalize on the effects of global warming by changing the map.

Obama, Afghanistan, and the 'just war'

Mon, Dec 14, 2 a.m.

By Anthony B. Robinson

There are times when war is justified, argued the president's favorite philosopher. And so, despite Obama's anti-Iraq War campaign and his recent Peace Prize, he's got the ghost of Reinhold Niebuhr on his shoulder.