Month: April 2006

The Government of Niger has stopped a BBC team covering the food situation in the country. Although there has thankfully been no repeat of the locust swarm of last year, the country has still to recover from the effects. The...

How do you know if the blogosphere is effective? What metric might we use to determine whether the voices of left-leaning citizen bloggers are having an effect on public discourse? My answer? Look at how the GOP views the state...

Like lions pacing back and forth in a cage, the city police in Cincinnati were prowling up one street and down another on Sunday. In my short trip up to the University yesterday, I saw about a dozen. Later, one zipped up to...

Speaking to a British audience last week about the war on terror, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, “I know we’ve made tactical errors, thousands of them I’m sure.  But when you look back in...

This time the drums weren’t present, they’ll be back next Friday, so a woman used a bullhorn to say the names and ages of the Iraqi citizens who were slaughtered in 2004. Most of them were young children. A name, age...