Shortly after my friend, Rachel Levy suggested I do an H1N1 Politiku, she began to blog about it herself.

Rachel's smart, fair, well researched analysis of the situation inspired me to attempt to corral a legion of literary inclined epidemiologists and academics to give their take on the...

Politiku is about politics. At least, ever since its launch last spring, my HuffPost Politiku column has been. Obama, The Supreme Court, Iran, Health Care and Obama again.

But I can't seem to stop blogging about Mad Men. Can't even manage to stop blogging about other people...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to grant Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize has not gone over well with the Taliban, Hezbollah or with Jamaat-eI-Islami, the conservative religious party in Pakistan. Nor did the Committee's decision sit well with Hamas, who also expressed disagreement about the Norwegian Nobel Committee's unconventional...

Not at all surprising, when I sent out my Health Care Politiku submission query I was swamped with phenomenal submissions. The delay in posting, however, had less to do with the volume of submissions I had to parse, process, and select and more to do with the subject matter....

That relentless curiosity, courage and pyrotechnic brilliance driving the astronauts, engineers, rocket scientists, physicists and researchers who dedicate their careers to space exploration, is a limitless source of fascination and inspiration for me.

To honor the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11's moon landing, I sought out individuals involved with...

I have no idea what prompted Sarah Palin's bolt-from-the-blue resignation last Friday. I've heard Letterman, I've heard scandal and I've heard higher political aspirations. All things considered, what can't be read into that refrigerator magnet panegyric she delivered, lauding her maverick self for defying those inevitable dead fish, lame duck...

The protests following Iran's contested election continue as Americans prepare to celebrate the two-hundred-thirty-third anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Difficult as it is to pinpoint a correlation, it would be even more difficult to avoid the fact that Iranian protesters are now struggling to obtain the...

Dad's Pentagon career began in the early 80s when this issue of nuclear non-proliferation --- his area of expertise -- was considered more of an industrial and diplomatic issue than one of national defense.

As would be bureaucratically expected, Dad's attempts to stop the US government from approving the trafficking...

Shortly after the Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced his upcoming retirement, Sonya Sotomayor became the living, breathing embodiment of Obama's controversial Empathy Standard.

The Ancient Egyptian Goddess, Ma'at embodied the spirit of Justice by helping Osiris judge the dead when he weighed their hearts against that Ostrich feather...

Different sources make different claims regarding the origin of Memorial Day. Southern hymns, Union Generals and United States Presidents all claim to have officiated the holiday that my great-grandmother from Omaha used to insist on referring to as, "Decoration Day." While I'm still not quite clear on whether "Decoration Day"...

Mothers Day wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for Anna M. Jarvis' tireless solicitations to legislators and businessmen. In 1914, when her efforts finally paid off, the holiday dedicated to honoring mothers was officiated as a national holiday by President Woodrow Wilson. It is now observed on the second Sunday...

Politiku is my attempt to capture the ever morphing emotional response to the political landscape. I began posting them on my blog less than a year ago during the 2008 DNC. Shortly after, I was inspired to Politiku about Sarah Palin and before I knew it, my then low-traffic...