Obama

How Obama won

Charles Hallman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:17:17 -0600

How the GOP threw the 2008 presidential election (sort of)

Aaron Porter — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:39:59 -0600

Si se Pudo!!!!

Alberto Monserrate — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:04:45 -0600

Dredging race out of the closet

Colette Davidson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:48:21 -0600

by Colette Davidson • 11/7/08 • It didn’t take long for the “Obama effect” to hit France. Just two days after the first African-American was elected president, the French are jumping on the chance to assess their own political makeup.

Shepard Fairey discusses Obama portrait

Paul Schmelzer — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:53:24 -0600

Bring me home to my new America

Colette Davidson — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:24:55 -0600

by Colette Davidson • 11/6/08 • I’ve been on the road now for almost ten years – hopping between countries, landing softly in Minneapolis from time to time to rest my wings, then parting again. Each experience brings a new flavor, a new host of challenges that puts the world in perspective. From these voyages, I have learned one thing – I am not proud to be an American.

Minnesota Senate, Congressional, judicial, and school elections

Mary Turck — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:19:19 -0600

Pakistan: The other shoe to drop?

Colette Davidson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:22:22 -0500

by Colette Davidson • 10/16/08 • Call it a premonition, but I think the Republican party just dropped its bomb. Today, the AP announced that another suspected U.S. led missile strike was carried out on Pakistan in an area known to harbor Al Qaeda and other terrorists. Since August, the U.S. has purportedly been involved with nearly a dozen similar attacks, all of which it neither confirms nor denies. Is today’s bomb any different from the others or could this be a ploy to instill confidence in the U.S.