In America, there's nothing wrong with political disagreements, even angry ones.

The more sides we hear from on an issue the more likely we are to choose the best solution; that's the guiding theory behind American democracy. But that doesn't hold true when one side is being deliberately misinformed....

The list of corrupt African leaders in modern history is a long one.

Idi Amin of Uganda, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Frederick Chiluba of Zambia, Sani Abacha of Nigeria -- to name just a few -- pilfered their countries and/or brutalized their people to...

This post has been cross-posted at guernicamag.com.

Take the poorest region in the world, where 70 percent of the people live in poverty, 25 million have HIV/AIDS, a child dies every 30 seconds from Malaria, more than half the countries are run by non-democratic regimes, which has had eleven...

While John McCain descended to some sickening lows in the 2008 presidential race, his dysfunctional campaign was merely the hapless grandchild -- and if we're lucky, the last of the bloodline -- of the godfather of Republican mudslinging, Lee Atwater.

But descend McCain did.

First he sold out by...