On the 16th day following his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama established by way of an executive order the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. This Office, according to the February 5th White House press release, "will be a resource...

The role played by gut feeling or subjective value judgment in the assessment of character is not to be underestimated, especially in politics. So when it comes to the decision making process of selecting our leaders, although we will listen to what the pundits have to say, although we will...

The reason for the sudden political ascendancy of Barack Obama, accompanied as it has been by the awakening of unprecedented social, political and cultural sentiments, not only in America but also in the world as a whole, has been the source of much speculation.

We have seen those who...

Democracy is not a commodity of fixed value; democracy, rather, is a process and as such something we must work each and every day to secure. To uphold and improve democracy's process is, therefore, to uphold and improve democracy itself. The more functional the process, the more authentic the democracy....