The other night I saw Bob Dylan in concert. He is amazing. Not just because he's old and still rocking, but also because his repertoire of songs spans...
The Tibetan capital doesn't have a single representative of the international media posted there. Tibetans can only send news of student demonstrations to the outside world by using rough-and-ready ways.
Everyone has been so focused on the froth of the Tea Party that no one seems to be considering the long term political impact of this giant pool of recently disenfranchised Americans.
France would be ready to embrace reform, as long as it's fair. But an arrogant Sarko marginalized any interlocutor; thus the whole issue was transferred to the street.
A Tea Party-backed congressional candidate in Texas is doing Sharron Angle's suggestive talk of "Second Amendment remedies" one better: he says violen...
Though Mexico is a thoroughly Catholic country, writer/director Mariana Chenillo decided that her first feature film, now titled Nora's Will, would be based on her own Jewish experience.
Religious women in Iran, whether they wear a chador or not, tend to at least some basic elements of beauty. Ahmadinejad's wife Farahi has belied even that.
WHAT: The Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice 2 WHO: Presenters include Danielle Abrams, Basekamp, Saskia Bos, The Bruce High Quali...
I want to believe that the right set of changes are underway in our nation's schools. Yet the more I hear, the more these donations, web launches and red-carpet premieres feel less like a transformational revolution, and more like a traditional smokescreen.
Revolutions are not driven by technology. Twitter and other social media technology are breaking down time and distance barriers that slowed the spread of public awareness of pressing issues.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)-- A prison guard accused of shooting a lawyer to death at a gun range told police he found the man dead and stole his rifle so it...
Transcript of my comments to the annual Progressive Festival in Petaluma, CA, September 26, 2010: First of all, thank you to the organizers of this e...
Conservatives abhor all the liberal ideas of foolish spending on social programs that they believe only serve to create lazy, dependent parasites sucking the life blood of hard-working taxpayers.
Nicolae Ceausescu today is the iconic example of the arrogance of power brought to an end by the will of the people.
As long as growth remains the number one priority of governments worldwide any effort to by those governments to seriously address climate change will be doomed to end in failure.
This Saturday, Colombia will start a new chapter in their history as they peacefully transition from the outgoing Uribe Administration to the new Santos Administration. With a new president they will be addressing new issues.
Twenty years ago on Christmas Day, the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed after a summary trial. And thanks to the marvels of modern technology, anyone can view the proceedings.
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The fact that professional journalists turn to democracy activists to help them "save the news" shows that journalism depends on democracy.
Let's face it Dems, you have the heart but you don't have the brains. The GOP has discovered a way to make the media work for them.
Today I woke up to the noise of the loudspeakers shouting slogans and the horns of the buses that would be taking thousands of the May Day demonstration participants back to their provinces.
Allende powerfully evokes the events of the 18th century in Island Beneath the Sea, about a slave's journey to freedom through the jungles of Haiti, neighborhoods of Cuba and households of New Orleans.
On June 12, 2009, Iran's now infamous elections were held. The idea that the Green Movement would be successful in a few short months is ridiculous -- revolutions are not won in a day.
This article originally appeared on Dissected News, where James will be live-blogging the events surrounding the anniversary of the June 12th election...
I caught the premier of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, a reality TV show that follows this chummy Brit around Huntington, WV as he tries to transform the eating habits in America's unhealthiest city.
