There's plenty of blame to go around for Martha Coakley's defeat at Scott Brown’s hands in the Massachusetts Senate race. Let's start with Coakley herself. She ran a pathetic campaign. Starting out...
Media images appear to be prime motivation this week in a collective, mobilized response underscored by Western guilt. Bombarded with dust-covered corpses, blood and broken bones, and bodies rotting...
A decade’s end lends itself to reflection. As a historian, I am thinking about how the 2000s compare to previous decades. While time and perspective may alter my thinking, I believe the 2000s is...
The Internet was aflutter this week with drama over Matt Taibbi's latest Rolling Stone story, wherein he blasts the Obama administration as being crammed full of multimillionaires from Wall Street...
A war president accepted the Nobel Peace Prize this week and with that acceptance laid out a defense of war as foreign policy. It is not my point in this piece to argue Barack Obama's position on...
November 4th marked two key ceremonial activities in Israel – the anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, and the subsequent hand-wringing over his legacy. Rabin was killed 14 years ago by...
Since 1901, The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to those that have gone to great lengths to make significant contributions to our world. Some of the notables include Jimmy Carter Jr, Nelson...
In the last two weeks, the political situation in Honduras has begun spiraling out of control. Coup leaders, led by Roberto Micheletti, have significantly raised the stakes since the return of exiled...
Political protest has always been an outsider's game, a struggle for attention from what tends to be a small group that believes it can win over more people with more visibility. Sometimes it's a...
I've been waiting a long time to hear a crowd chanting “You lie!” about the president of the United States. Problem is, they're chanting it at the wrong times and, for the most part, about the...