Expectations for the vice-presidential debate had been lowered so much that by the time the candidates took the stage, pundits could spin a win for Sarah Palin out of her managing to speak in...
Should McCain defeat Obama in the US Presidential election, the world will descend into a state of mass depression. Political and psychological despair piling on top of the worst global economic...
I have bemoaned the fact that politics these days are all about gloss and image, simple statements and sound bites, with little to no room for complex thought. That it matters more whether a...
I’m not especially versed in politics. I know the basics: things like which amendment grants us the constitutional right to punch dolphins, or who that president was that bit the head off of a bat...
The economic bailout of Wall Street investment banks proposed by the Bush administration is only three pages long. If you click here to read it, you’ll have done more than John McCain apparently...
As the first woman nominated by the Republican party to the vice presidency, Sarah Palin has achieved a form of celebrity status. It is simply not possible to tune into any news program for an...
I’m watching Capital Talk on Geo TV out of the corner of my eye as I research madly for news from Pakistani and foreign press sources about American troops on the ground in northwest Pakistan....
John McCain is white; conversely Barack Obama is African American. It is an obvious but important statement to make. McCain's whiteness is often ignored in the mainstream press. Conversations about...
One late night during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, as the swimmer Michael Phelps smashed yet another world record, I walked through Philadelphia thinking over its history and was struck by how well...
By most accounts Hurricane Gustav was not nearly as bad as it could have been, and New Orleans appears to have been spared—though it was only after the winds and rains of Katrina had died down and...
