Chicago’s Olympic disappointment
As a sports fan, I absolutely love watching the Olympic Games and have done so since the Grenoble Winter and Mexico City Summer Games. I love the fact that when the Games are happening, we are...
Category: North America
Mr. DeMint goes to Honduras
Meet Jim DeMint. Mr. DeMint is the junior senator from South Carolina, elected for the first time back in 2004 in one of the less-noticed rightward shifts in the country in the wake of George W....
What should Obama do about the Honduran coup?
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...
Did money kill the public option?
“Democrats kill the public option.” Well, the public option lives beyond the Senate Finance Committee. But that headline should still give chills to anyone who thought that a Democratic...
The G-20, Tea Parties, and the politics of outsiderism
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...
JUSTICE: surveillance has nothing to do with who is in the White House
The Obama administration might be bogged down in health care fights right now, but another battle looms on the horizon, one that caused problems on the campaign trail and continues to raise hackles...
“You lie!” – You’re shouting it to the wrong U.S. president, Joe
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...
In Canada, medical marijuana can get you sentenced to 7 days in bed
Differently abled adults are often treated like children, because it is assumed that they have a diminished mental capacity. The inability to complete certain tasks because the world has been...
The silence of our friends: Van Jones’ resignation in context
Is there anyone here who ever swallowed hard and took a stand for something that you knew was unpopular? Has anybody in this room ever really, really screwed something up, and then tried again? Well,...
Obama’s health care speech: bipartisanship as one-way street
The most outstanding characteristic of the Democratic party since the departure of Lyndon Johnson has been its strange fear of being identified with its own progressive base. President Barack Obama...