Last Friday I attended an Eisenhower Fellow panel discussion on the Internet, Elections and the Transformation of Public Debate at MIT. It was lead by Eisenhower Fellow and Social Sphere founder John Della Volpe and featured fellows from a dozen countries including Egypt, Russia, Sweden, Italy, Colombia and South...

The White House has expressed "concern" and "sadness" over the decline of the newspaper industry but, as the Associated Press reported last week, has made it clear that a bailout is not in the cards.

The White House is making a mistake.

If the greedy auto and financial companies getting...

A post-election survey from Democracy Corps/Campaign for America's future found the King of the Dittoheads has gone limp.

Sure, 52 percent of Republicans gave him a positive rating in the poll. But he had no sex appeal among the voters that matter - moderates and independents. Just 13...

Damn Yankees!

I'm a Red Sox fan and watching the Yankees spend almost $250 million dollars last week on two of the best free agent pitchers in baseball was hard to watch. Then today as I was reading that the Yankees were not finished spending millions on ballplayers (they still...

Barack Obama, in a pre-election speech, told the story of a teacher he encountered who complained of a "these kids" syndrome - the tendency to explain away the failures of our education system by suggesting that "these kids" don't want to learn or "these kids"are just too far behind.

They're...

Today, 90 years after the Allies and Germany signed an armistice to bring an end to WW I, President George W. Bush will preside over his last Veterans Day as Commander in Chief. During President Bush's command almost 5000 American soldiers have lost their lives fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan...

When Barack Obama wins the election tonight, take a moment to thank Tom Delay,
Jack Abramoff, Karl Rove and all the other corrupt Republicans who handed Democrats
the 2006 election and set the table for this year's rout.

And when you've said your thank yous -- and taken...

In the past few days there has been a round of press coverage on Sarah Palin and her speech on special needs children.

Kyle's Treehouse was created by Jennifer Westphal the mother of an autistic son. See what she has to say about this electionand Barack Obama.

In this election season finale Coco the star of www.mypresidentpalin.com predicts the future.

See it to believe it:

My dad was a plumber. My dad was a Republican. And if my dad were alive today, he would never vote for John McCain.

My father would respect McCain's service, I have no doubt. But he would be a little angered, I think, by McCain's attempt to connect to the...

In the past week a vocal chorus of Republican and Conservative voices have endorsed Barack Obama sharing a concern that Sarah Palin is not ready to be president.

Colin Powell yesterday stated, "I don't believe she's ready to be president of the United States, which is the job of the...

A few weeks ago I created http://www.mypresidentpalin.com.

Why?

At the time everyone was talking about the risk of "President" Palin and today they still are. But will it matter on November 4?

The last...