Month: March 2010

In a perfect world the photograph of a black man kissing his white wife on television would illicit little if any reaction from those viewing the photograph. However, we do not live in that perfect world and so last night when...

{Originally posted at my blog Senate Guru.} Best I can tell, there are five 2010 U.S. Senate races that still don’t have a Democratic candidate. StateRepublican IncumbentFiling Deadline AlaskaLisa MurkowskiJune 1...

Nate Silver has a fascinating post up that pretty much confirms what I’ve thought all along. He gamed out the health care negotiations to test whether different strategies might have altered the outcome, and by how much....

This is the second in a two-part series about my visit with Jan Nijhoff, who works with the Common Market for Eastern and South Africa (COMESA) and Michigan State University in Lusaka, Zambia. Cross posted from Worldwatch...

So, let’s say that at least part of the point of the 9/11 attacks was to get the American people to focus on the plight of the Palestinians. I think we can support such a supposition by looking at bin-Laden’s 1998...