Barack Obama's campaign for the White House got a lot of attention for its savvy Web organizing, its skill at fundraising and even just for the size of its email list—13 million names. The backbone...
“History shows that it does not matter who is in power… those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end...
Though the U.S. is planning to exit Iraq, the military is still stretched trying to fight a war in two separate countries. During his presidency, George Bush was well aware that restoring the draft...
With the results of Tuesday's Israeli election still largely undecided, one certainty has emerged from the chaotic aftermath: Israel is, as MJ Rosenberg noted on Wednesday, "becoming a right-wing...
Those “Oh my god, the Bush era is over” moments are getting fewer and farther between now as the Obama administration settles in. The easy-to-accomplish changes have happened, and now the hard...
Perception is reality. So goes the old trope - the bane of various minorities, spiky-haired punks, and clear thinkers everywhere. In an intractable, prolonged, bitter standoff between Palestinian and...
Vice President Joe Biden's biography became a campaign tool when he joined the Obama ticket this past summer. Then-Senator Biden's no-bull attitude meshed well with the story of the father who took...
It is official, Governor R Blagojevich has been convicted in the Senate despite an impassioned plea. Listening to his speech the other day, I noticed that the one theme that he kept returning to was...
Save your psychic self-defense 'Cause I don't care what you're against What are you for? -All, "What are you for?" The progressive movement in the United States is having a strange identity crisis...
In announcing the ceasefire in Gaza, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated that Israel had “reached all the goals of the war, and beyond.” It’s an odd choice of words, but I guess the right words...
