I've turned my central focus away from the issue covered in my recent books - the Internet and "free culture" - and turned it instead toward combating corruption in Congress. Later this month, I and others will announce a large grassroots campaign aimed at channeling the amazing desire for change that Americans are feeling right now into tangible and fundamental reform of our political system. We all have issues that we care about most, but progress will be stifled on every big issue until we solve the threshold problem: big-money interests having disproportional clout in our public debates.
If Blagojevich is going down, he is showing some street smarts mixed with political brilliance that we seldom see at any level, and if he does go down he may also cause some lasting intended damage in his wake.
If I were the political editor at a newspaper -- or Washington bureau chief of a network -- I'd call in my White House team and ask them to try to answer these questions about Bush blocking Obama from the Blair House.
How does it look now that Reid is manipulating Senate procedure to exclude Burris, but simply shrugged his shoulders over Samuel Alito, warrantless wiretapping and the Military Commissions Act?
In June, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on the Second Amendment right to bear arms, D.C. v. Heller. So far, the victory hasn't turned out exactly as the gun rights folks had hoped.
More and more in the past ten years the U.S. and Israel have shared a fantasy which says that the Arabs understand only force.
As you compose your inaugural address, I fervently hope that you will not pass over the exchange of ideas in the White House between a great president and a great intellectual on the chilly morning of January 14, 1941.
Obama is not a monarch -- Arne Duncan is not education czar -- and we are not his subjects. Educators, students, and citizens must press now for an education worthy of a democracy.
People like Elisabeth Hasselbeck only like the intervention of judges when it helps them (see "Florida Recount") and, they like to endow The People with more wisdom than reality supports.
Brace yourself. It's going get rocky soon. We are about to have a very bright man as our president. And we've been away from that territory for a very long time.
The people of Gaza are victims of geopolitics at its inhumane worst: producing what Israel itself calls a 'total war' against an essentially defenseless society.
Our country faces significant health challenges including skyrocketing costs, declining funding for scientific research, and lack of innovation in the government's response to emerging threats.
The Marines have accompanied the Iraqis about as far as they can go. Now they're feeling like a parent with a toddler on a bicycle. The training wheels have to come off at some point.
We at the Population Research Institute stand by our research and our findings. And we remain firmly convinced that the UN Population Fund serves no useful purpose, and should be abolished.
Hopefully, with the arrival of the Obama administration, Steven Mosher's ability to force his extremist views on the rest of the world will soon be over.
People like Elisabeth Hasselbeck only like the intervention of judges when it helps them (see "Florida Recount") and, they like to endow The People with more wisdom than reality supports.
In situations like this, truth-and-reconciliation commissions can sustain a lot of healing. Sadly, we are unlikely to muster the political will to hold such a commission.
What troubles me most is how the IDF, in the name of transparency and smart public relations, has not only posted quite a few videos of bombing runs, but continues to show one in question.
With Claiborne Pell's death, Rhode Islanders have lost their gentle giant and the nation has lost a distinguished public servant who did more to make us a modern Athens than any other man of his era.
