Louis C.K., responding to a question on the Daily Show about a Rolling Stone article, replied: “Well they put that kid on the cover that blew up Boston, so fuck them.” Louis was being glib, and he’s such a thoughtful comedian that I suspect he ...
Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee, currently an independent, announced this week that he will become a Democrat. This move culminates his political metamorphosis from a liberal Republican who served as mayor of Warwick and senator, to an independe...
Virtuous action is rare in today’s political realm. Partisan divides are ubiquitous. These circumstances, however, are what make Rhode Island’s new legislation legalizing same-sex marriage all the more incredible. And it is because of these circu...
Copyright © 2005 Alexandra Lee. Licensed under Creative Commons. When it comes to reproductive rights in this country, we dodged a bullet Tuesday. It’s bad enough that many states and their legislators will continue to press for increasingly restr...
Copyright © 2005 Alexandra Lee. Licensed under Creative Commons. When it comes to reproductive rights in this country, we dodged a bullet Tuesday. It’s bad enough that many states and their legislators will continue to press for increasingly restr...
The Northeast region of the United States just experienced a late autumn hurricane. This is not common. Nonetheless, we cannot make the following claim: climate change caused Hurricane Sandy. Why? We must remember the following: If we are to make a c...
The Northeast region of the United States just experienced a late autumn hurricane. This is not common. Nonetheless, we cannot make the following claim: climate change caused Hurricane Sandy. Why? We must remember the following: If we are to make a c...
The Dorr Rebellion. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Just this month, several members of the Cranston Board of Canvassers resigned from their positions rather than approve the provision of an absentee ballot to convicted murderer Michael Woodma...
The Dorr Rebellion. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Just this month, several members of the Cranston Board of Canvassers resigned from their positions rather than approve the provision of an absentee ballot to convicted murderer Michael Woodma...
With the election just a week away, more attention than ever has been leveraged by both presidential candidates in gaining the approval of Asian Americans that will head to the polls next Tuesday. Broadly speaking, Asian American voters constitute a ...
With the election just a week away, more attention than ever has been leveraged by both presidential candidates in gaining the approval of Asian Americans that will head to the polls next Tuesday. Broadly speaking, Asian American voters constitute a ...
A recent post at The New Inquiry does a commendable job of pinning down the strange political vantage point that is inhabited by the political meme. The writer, one Nathan Jurgenson, conducts a ...
A recent post at The New Inquiry does a commendable job of pinning down the strange political vantage point that is inhabited by the political meme. The writer, one Nathan Jurgenson, conducts a ...
Image obtained from Wikipedia. As is traditional in an election year, most of the normal legislative agenda has been suspended in favor of campaigns and partisan posturing. The GOP is largely running on the economy, which is sure to be a winning is...
Image obtained from Wikipedia. As is traditional in an election year, most of the normal legislative agenda has been suspended in favor of campaigns and partisan posturing. The GOP is largely running on the economy, which is sure to be a winning is...
Last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York cited his profound disappointment in both presidential candidates. Bloomberg, an ex-Republican who promotes gay marriage and big business alike and remained an undecided voter in the 2008 election, doesn...
Last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York cited his profound disappointment in both presidential candidates. Bloomberg, an ex-Republican who promotes gay marriage and big business alike and remained an undecided voter in the 2008 election, doesn...
Lately, the degree to which discourses of “objectivity” have dominated our political theatre is astounding. Everywhere one turns, he or she is confronted by a variety of appeals to some qualification outside the bound of “politics” and “par...
Lately, the degree to which discourses of “objectivity” have dominated our political theatre is astounding. Everywhere one turns, he or she is confronted by a variety of appeals to some qualification outside the bound of “politics” and “par...
In the past year, we’ve heard President Obama and Governor Romney talk about everything from Libya to the London Olympics. However, public education has been noticeably absent from our nation’s discourse. A topic that has been included in nationa...
In the past year, we’ve heard President Obama and Governor Romney talk about everything from Libya to the London Olympics. However, public education has been noticeably absent from our nation’s discourse. A topic that has been included in nationa...
It’s the first day of kindergarten. Aren’t you cute? You, five years old, walk out the door to school, maybe for the first time – excited, impatient, catatonic or crying hysterically. You’ve walked past your neighborhood school hundreds of ti...
It’s the first day of kindergarten. Aren’t you cute? You, five years old, walk out the door to school, maybe for the first time – excited, impatient, catatonic or crying hysterically. You’ve walked past your neighborhood school hundreds of ti...
Cranbrook Kingswood is an elite boarding school that sprawls out across several acres in the lush outskirts of Detroit, its students hailing from all corners of the globe. It boasts an award winning, LED-lit natatorium, a wood-paneled basketball cour...
Cranbrook Kingswood is an elite boarding school that sprawls out across several acres in the lush outskirts of Detroit, its students hailing from all corners of the globe. It boasts an award winning, LED-lit natatorium, a wood-paneled basketball cour...
We’ve heard a lot about campaign finance this election cycle. But what actually is it and why should we care? Let’s get caught up on the history first. Campaign finance on the Federal level essentially began in the 1880s, but was largely ineffect...
We’ve heard a lot about campaign finance this election cycle. But what actually is it and why should we care? Let’s get caught up on the history first. Campaign finance on the Federal level essentially began in the 1880s, but was largely ineffect...