Month: January 2010

Now also available in Orange and on The European Tribune. The received wisdom in mainstream US political discourse appears to be that Martha Coakley lost the Massachusetts special Senate election (to replace Ted Kennedy) because...

Congressional Democrats and the White House are getting a lot of advice today. Almost all of it is self-serving. I might have some advice, but I mainly have a few observations. As someone who spent 2005-2009 documenting the...

I’m working hard on an article re the sorry history of America’s interventions in Haiti. But I felt compelled to write and share this little summary as well, in limerick form. Hang on, Haiti America’s got...

The butterflies are back, in the thousands. Female Common Brown Butterfly. We can’t go walking on our land without sending dozens into the air every dozen steps or so. They flutter just above the ground or flit up...

“We have to outthink the terrorists,” Senator DeMint said last month in a televised interview. “And when we formed the airport security system, we realized we could not use collective bargaining and unionization because of that...