I am one happy person this morning.

This election will be the last chance to shake things up for a while…. at least the next four years. Obama is inspiring, but he is also smart. His policies make sense.
I remain positive that the U.S. public will see the necessity to move in a new direction.

Once again, the presidential election boils down to untrue soundbites. The latest ad from the McCain camp misrepresents Obama. FactCheck.org did a good job breaking down Obama’s budget policy here. The scary part is this: most people will not check the facts or read about the issues.  Rather, they will listen to the dumbed-down soundbites [...]

After watching the NBC-moderated Democratic debate in Nevada last night, I spent the morning perusing various blogs. I came across a blog I haven’t read before: News and Comment. Allan Nairn, an award-winning investigative journalist focused on U.S. foreign policy, writes the blog. I was so taken by this particular post on the politics of [...]

It feels oddly surreal (no pun intended) as I read Cesairé’s opening lines of Discourse on Colonialism (1955). Or, should I say apropos given our current political climate?
A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems [...]

The other day I was reading the “live blogging” from the NYTimes of the latest Republican debate. Most of the blogging was done by economists. Typically, my siblings and I e-mail one another political texts from popular media that strike a chord; this was an excerpt that I passed along:
As usual, the Republicans can’t explain [...]