Month: April 2010

Yeela Raanan with Bedouin citizenYeela Raanan was born and brought up in the Israeli Negev. She spent a year (eighth grade) in W. Sussex England during her father’s Sabbatical year in 1978 and studied for her PHD in...

Polls this far out from the 2012 presidential election mean very little, but it’s instructive to look at what CNN found in the current state of play: The poll shows Obama topping Romney 53 percent to 45 percent, beating...

So, in a true shocker, the Republicans have come out against financial reforms and are using pure Frank Luntz-developed language to make their arguments. Even as they sound populist and anti-banker, they’re really just...

Joe Lieberman thanks God that the Republicans are doing well at the polls and seem poised to make significant gains in the midterm elections. Now, I wonder why Mr. Lieberman is willing to make remarks like that. I can see how it...

We are going to try to write the article we wish we had been able to read before attempting to bus our way across Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda (December 2009). Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and...