Nobel Prize

"Obama is average" "Obama is average"

In an interview, a leading voice of America's conservative intellectuals discusses Barack Obama's failures
By Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz Oct 27, 2009

  • Accusing Obama critics of "standing with the terrorists"

    Is there a patriotic duty to join a "national celebration" over Obama?
    By Glenn Greenwald October 10, 2009

  • The great crash of the "Chicago school" of economics

    The heirs of Milton Friedman used to win all the big prizes. But the last six months have been a serious bummer for the prophets of free market fundamentalism.
    By Andrew Leonard April 28, 2009

  • A Nobel Prize for Paul Krugman

    The Al Gore of partisan economics? Pshaw. He deserved this award, whether or not he was right about Republican economics.
    By Andrew Leonard October 13, 2008

  • Let's hear it for Harald zur Hausen!

    Virologist who discovered HPV shares Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
    October 6, 2008

  • "We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency"

    On Monday, former Vice President Al Gore accepted his Nobel Peace Prize. Read his acceptance speech here.
    December 10, 2007

  • Salon's guide to Nobel winner Doris Lessing

    Novelist, memoirist, activist, fantasist -- this entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes you on a guided tour of the celebrated writer's long literary career.
    By Laura Morgan Green October 12, 2007

  • "You don't have to get snippy about this"

    Will Bush congratulate Gore for his Nobel win?
    By Tim Grieve October 12, 2007

  • The ignoble prize

    The Nobel Prize in literature has come to symbolize greatness in life, as in art -- but Günter Grass isn't the only laureate with a questionable past.
    By George Rafael October 11, 2006

  • The outsider

    J.M. Coetzee is a teller of mysterious and universal tales in the tradition of Kafka.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 3, 2003

  • The redemption of Gov. Ryan

    Facing a possible indictment for corruption, the veteran political deal-maker shut down death row in Illinois. Is he trying to save lives -- or his own legacy?
    By Patrick Arden January 16, 2003

  • Lance and Serena: The sequel

    When we disparaged the idea that Lance Armstrong could be named Athlete of the Year, many of you got very, very upset. Well, get over it.
    By King Kaufman January 13, 2003

  • The black sheep

    A critic of Islam and the Third World, cranky, controversial and politically incorrect V.S. Naipaul is the most daring choice for the Nobel Prize in literature in years.
    By Gavin McNett October 14, 2001

  • Aung San Suu Kyi

    Even when she's under house arrest, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning resistance leader is a symbol of hope in the struggle for democracy in Burma.
    By David Rubien February 27, 2001

  • And the winner is ...

    The drama and the dish behind the literary prizes that shape what America reads.
    By Laura Miller November 16, 2000

  • My perversion

    The love that dare not cluck its name; a few words about dirty words in Mexico; and the prize that is Consuela.
    By Carlos Amantea May 6, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Readers to drug czar: Busted! Plus: One Nobel does not a macrometeorologist make; cozying up with an e-book.
    April 5, 2000

  • Nobel dude

    Kary Mullis revolutionized genetic research but thumbs his nose at the scientific establishment. It thumbs its nose right back.
    By William Speed Weed March 29, 2000

  • "My Century" by G|nter Grass

    In a new novel, the cantankerous 1999 Nobel laureate takes on his times, year by year.
    By Michael Scott Moore December 14, 1999

  • The mysteries of Bill Clinton

    Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcma Marquez compares the president's fate to that of Hester Prynne.
    By Gabriel Garcma Marquez February 1, 1999

  • The mysteries of Bill Clinton

    Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez compares the president's fate to that of Hester Prynne.
    By Gabriel Garcma Marquez January 30, 1999
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