Senator Barack Obama won a spectacular victory in South Carolina today, handily defeating his nearest rival, Senator Hillary Clinton, by almost thirty percentage points.  For the first time in a primary election with both Clinton and Obama’s names on the ballot, one candidate won a majority of the votes — Obama captured a solid [...]

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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has done plenty of terrible things to the city of Detroit — from blatant corruption (taking a family vacation and buying his wife a luxury SUV with city funds) to general abuse of power (the massive parties in his official residence and while on official business Washington DC). But [...]

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Race has been one of the most discussed topics in the 2008 presidential campaign.  Some of the most important discussions around race haven’t entered the presidential campaign very much at all, most notably, there’s been almost no discussion of ways to combat the racism built into the structure of American society.  Race is clearly present [...]

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The Israeli government has once again completely isolated the millions of people in Gaza from the rest of the world. Gaza is walled off, with a few access points that now have been totally sealed to all goods and people. If it sounds like a giant open-air prison, that’s because that’s exactly what [...]

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Everyone’s talking about the February 5th Presidential Primary election in California.  The Golden State is the biggest prize in presidential politics, and this time around, California’s election is competitive and relevant.  All three leading Democratic candidates have been criss-crossing the state in the past few days (and Clinton speaks on my old stomping grounds at [...]

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