Sub Party In The U.S.A.
Eric Yahnker's exhibition "Party Sub / Sub Party" presents a playful look at the United States in a time when celebs, sports and sandwiches rule. ...
Eric Yahnker's exhibition "Party Sub / Sub Party" presents a playful look at the United States in a time when celebs, sports and sandwiches rule. ...
Richard Walden | Posted 05.16.2012
For every dollar you give a "Pol, PAC or Party," try to match it with a dollar wisely chosen to meet human needs at your most trusted nonprofit.
The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 03.15.2012
Newt Gingrich is not going down without a fight. While campaigning in the Chicago suburbs on Wednesday night, the former House Speaker passed on p...
Christopher Lane | Posted 05.05.2012
A debate about the scope and limits of secularism has begun to collide once more with those wanting to increase the power and presence of religion in the public sphere.
Andrew S. Doctoroff | Posted 04.01.2012
Our two-party system is buckling under the weight of its dysfunction. Exhausted by partisan gridlock, Americans are finally ready to embrace a centrist, pragmatic, independent candidate free from the demands of special interests and ideologues.
Ann Lee | Posted 03.13.2012
Taking a page out of China's leadership selection process, the U.S. can introduce the idea of earned authority as a requirement for running for office.
Jim Schroer | Posted 03.11.2012
Such has been the patient sufferance of the people of these United States of America; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of political decision making and, when necessary, the actual structure and organization of its government.
Philip Seib | Posted 03.04.2012
Although it is unfortunate that Americans take their political system for granted, it remains a showcase that can enhance America's standing throughout the world.
Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 02.11.2012
Do most citizens have a fully reasoned view of what we want government to actually do? Is that at the root of the polarization poisoning American politics? Perhaps a little thought experiment would help.
Ethan Marcus | Posted 01.28.2012
Polarization in any environment is never a good thing-- unfortunately, this is what has happened to our world and our country, especially in its policies and politics.
Joseph Amodeo | Posted 01.17.2012
When will Catholics start to occupy the United States Conference Catholic Bishops and diocesan offices across the country to demand a moral voice that focuses on Christ's message of love and justice?
Ethan Casey | Posted 11.23.2011
I woke up this morning to the news that Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, had directly accused Pakistan's Inter-Se...
Rich Tafel | Posted 11.20.2011
If Americans were told to choose between two cars, shirts, colors or family sizes, we'd rise up in revolt. Tell us we have only two parties, however, and we accept it as though any alternative is unimaginable.
Posted 10.22.2011
By Nicole Neroulias c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) Has America gotten more religious, or just American politics? The country has grown ...
Ethan Casey | Posted 10.09.2011
A decade ago, I read a book that made a lasting impression on me. It was a memoir called Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner, who had recently passed ...
Ethan Casey | Posted 09.25.2011
My column last week on drone attacks so clearly struck a nerve that I intended to write a follow-up this week, addressing some of the many comments an...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 09.02.2011
This July 4, politics is too important to be left to the politicians. The stakes are too high and the system is too broken. Citizen action is everyone's job now.
Huffington Post | Anna Bahr | Posted 08.31.2011
Every July 4th, we celebrate the values that define the quintessential American spirit: community, hard work, individualism, and freedom. These are th...
Ethan Casey | Posted 08.28.2011
One of my purposes in this column is to help myself and my readers understand a rudderless country with a feckless president, a military caste with an...
Ethan Casey | Posted 08.23.2011
To write on controversial subjects in a way that I consider helpful takes a capacity for keeping one's cool and a willingness to refrain from scoring cheap points. That's no more true of Pakistan than of any other subject.
Dinkar Jain | Posted 08.08.2011
Consider three Americans: a gay businessman who wants to lower taxes; a scientist who teaches evolution but opposes amnesty for the illegal; an agnost...
James Bacchus | Posted 05.25.2011
The biggest threat to America's future is not foreign competition. It is the political paralysis that keeps us from rising to the challenge of foreign competition.
Ethan Casey | Posted 05.25.2011
The point is that no self-respecting human being likes to be bullied, whether in Tripoli or in Madison. In America, less urgently than in Libya but urgently enough, it's high time we reclaimed an honest and legitimately popular politics.
William Horden | Posted 11.17.2011
Right and Left are going to have to recognize the importance of the role each plays in the well-being of the whole.
Yvette Carnell | Posted 05.25.2011
If we believe in the words of Thomas Jefferson, who thought that we should have "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none," then it's time we live by those words.
Posted 04.09.2012