Voter registration is the gateway to voting. But our registration system relies on 19th century practices, and, leaves millions of eligible voters out of the political process.
Mike Signer | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
A key aspect of constitutionalism is that it begins and ends with the people, rather than rhetoric, institutions, or leaders. Thus the genius of Obama's policy of actual democracy promotion.
Robert Koehler | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
What we lack as a species is a moral-spiritual force for healing that is the equivalent of any of the great mechanisms of destruction we have developed over the millennia in our obsession with dominance.
Sharon L. Camp | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
Ghana provides two keys as to how best to target the continent's scarce resources to maximize impact. First, invest in young people. Second, do this through strong private-public partnerships.
Hagai El-Ad | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
An IDF officer allegedly orders one of his soldiers to shoot a bound, blind-folded Palestinian detainee at close range.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.04.2009 | Politics
I request that the President provide those who participate in our democracy every protection granted by our Constitution to challenge those policies with which we disagree.
Louise Mirrer | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media
The American Revolution had its own bloggers. They were called pamphleteers and their opinions were pointed, their language was colorful, and their sense of urgency was compelling.
Jim Luce | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
Afghan Star is the perfect window into a country's tenuous, ongoing struggle for modernity. What I would normally consider frivolous entertainment is downright revolutionary here.
Christina Patterson | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media
Vicious governments will always try to hold on to power, but a modest Englishman called Tim has made their job much harder.
Al Giordano | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
The coup defenders are afraid of losing their "freedoms." But today, in one fell swoop their leaders erased those very freedoms, atop all the other ones they've already burned alive.
Eric Kuhn | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
"Change is only going to come about when people have the power to act upon the knowledge that they will acquire through the new technology," says former Alaska Democratic Senator Mike Gravel.
Erin Mazursky | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
This moment in Albania brings so much possibility for hope yet also so much possibility to lose that hope.
Jon Chattman | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
With the lack of jobs for new graduates, as well as older borrowers, there is a looming student loan bubble about to burst.
John Feffer | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
The democracy we get might only be the democracy we deserve.
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 07.27.2009 | World
21st century technologies will be used to advance the cause of freedom in Iran. But simply tweeting those words won't make it happen. Believing in them will.
James Zogby | Posted 07.27.2009 | World
The political leaders and commentators speaking the loudest and urging the most reckless behavior have absolutely no clue what is actually happening in Iran.
Dave Johnson | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
The point of health care reform is to take better care of each other while lowering the costs. This is why the "public option" is necessary -- private, profit-driven companies are not designed to accomplish delivery of essential services to everyone.
Parvez Ahmed | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
Muslims are yearning for justice that they have been denied for so long, often due to outside interference but increasingly due to internal failures of Muslim majority states.
Pablo Manriquez | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media
What was once a hopeful demand becomes a site-busting tsunami, a brute digital force veiled in Mousavi green.
Will Durst | Posted 07.24.2009 | Comedy
You want to rig an election, you don't claim 63%. You squeak by with 51%. Didn't you guys learn anything from Karl Rove? At least let the other guy appear to win his home district.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
The GOP should learn the difference between a loyal opposition that raises serious objections in a sensible manner -- and a crazed one that is foaming at the mouth.
Diane Francis | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
Iranian women are standing shoulder to shoulder in a way never before seen in a society that mistreats them so severely.
Ming Holden | Posted 07.23.2009 | World
Mongolia may be a post-communist country landlocked between Russia and China, but it is also a country of Buddhists with a unique attitude that lends itself to the Democratic philosophy.
Taufiq Rahim | Posted 07.21.2009 | World
The fight is not for the West and against Islam nor vice versa, but is rather a struggle for freedom pure and simple.
Giles Slade | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
Injustice and arrogance are powerful catalysts, aren't they?
Wendy Weiser | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics