Month: January 2009

What took them so long? The Illinois House of Representatives has voted to impeach the state’s scandal-hit governor, Rod Blagojevich. Mr Blagojevich was arrested last month and charged with attempting to solicit bribes, as...

Ron Brownstein makes a startling, but happy observation. Given expected demographic changes, if different ethnic groups vote in the same percentages twelve years from now as they did last November, what will be the result? These...

Twilight Zone / A different drummer was written by Gideon Levy and published today in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz. If one can write poetry about the brutal Gaza invasion through prose, this article is as close as one can...

I think we’ve all seen this movie, although it turned out a little differently: Leonidas Vargas, a once powerful Colombian drug trafficker, has been shot dead in his hospital bed in the Spanish capital, Madrid. Police said...

My wife runs an educational consulting firm and works with many teenagers to help them with the college application process.  While this rite of passage has always been fraught with stress and confusion, recent changes...