One of the most reliable truisms in international relations is that military governments are not, by definition, democratizing ones. They are self-serving. When their interests coincide with those of...
C*nt. Bitch. Whore. Likely you've read these and other epithets, and related threats, flying around the internet recently. If you're not a woman or a feminist-minded blogger, you might not be used to...
I got the text message at 1:07 AM: URGENT: Hundreds of police mobilizing around Zuccotti. Eviction in process. I made the decision to go at 1:08 AM. I got off the train at Rector Street—this was...
It’s a question I’ve been asking myself for weeks now. Since its beginnings on a Saturday night in September, the Occupy movement has spread like wildfire across the country and indeed the...
A waxing moon rises in the East as protesters start to assemble, fishing signs out of the back of a pickup truck. ‘Honk if you’re the 99%’ ‘End bank lies’ ‘Foreclose on corporate greed’...
Next Tuesday in Mississippi, voters will decide on Initiative 26, a new constitutional amendment which will define radically redefine the legal conception of personhood, considering a person “every...
Yesterday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voted to recognize Palestine as an independent state. The vote follows PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ wildly...
Yesterday, Cristina Fernandez was re-elected as President of Argentina with 54% of the votes (as of this writing, media reports she won by 54%, with final results expected by the end of the week,...
Ralph Fiennes’ adaptation of Coriolanus has been dubbed “muscular” but all the upper body strength in the world doesn’t quite compensate for the skinny legs that buckle just shy of the...
Ugandan children hiding at night from LRA kidnappers, public domain. This week, President Barack Obama authorized 100 Special Forces operatives to enter Uganda in an advisory capacity aimed at wiping...
