Month: July 2008

The overall reaction that I had to watching Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin this afternoon was mainly visceral. What he said made much less of an impression on me than the spectacle itself. The most remarkable part of it...

Lawrence of Cyberia wrote the following essay as a comment to a diary at My Left Wing a few days ago. She reproduced it on her site because it was also a suitable response to readers who email her from time to time with...

New Systems Keep a Close Eye on Online Students at Home Tucked away in a 1,200-page bill now in Congress is a small paragraph that could lead distance-education institutions to require spy cameras in their students’ homes....

David Broder says that ‘July has been a cruel month for McCain.’ If Obama gives a good speech in Berlin today, July will get just a little bit crueler. The New York Times, Spiegel, and Time all have coverage of...

    On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a ground breaking executive order requiring all city agencies to provide language assistance services for people who speak Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean,...