Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
Turn to the left, turn to the Right: Get your Marxists right right right
Okay, people. I really don’t want to go here more than once. (And I haven’t, on the blog, but I have this conversation with people.) Let’s get the record straight: Fascists and Marxists…not the same. Both, in the eyes of some people like Republican Rep. (GA) Paul Broun, evil…but in [...]
From Rwanda’s female-dominated parliament to Alaska’s hockey mom…
It’s a long trip, perhaps.
Here’s an interesting piece from Salon, not for its politics, but for its insightful consideration of the way the gender dominates how Americans talk about Sarah Palin. It begs, from both sides of the aisle, careful consideration about how we are manipulated by language and narrative in an election season:
“The [...]
This has nothing, but nothing, to do with Africa. But it does have to do with Bill Clinton
Whatever your politics, if you can still make an argument that this man is not a liability to the party he’s trying to help, or that he should maybe just go sit quietly in a rocker on an Arkansas porch for a few months, I’d love to hear it. Because after this interview with [...]
Don’t say he didn’t warn you
I’ve been holding this little tidbit for the right moment… The day Clinton wins in West Virginia seems apropos.
When I was in Burundi, I met this Congolese guy who wanted to talk about the American election. He was the third Congolese guy I’d had a conversation about the campaigns with, and the first two [...]
Decoding electoral news, or, I’m from a state of racists
Here are several “dog bites man” stories, which is journalism code for “stuff that’s so obvious it doesn’t merit a story.” Except this is primary season, and so the simple fact that there are simple facts in the world makes them important enough to put in the paper, provided they can be anchored on [...]
Hearing the human, or, Why Marc Lacey is my hero
There’ve been a lot of articles about the rising price of food around the world and what it means for everything from the death of the middle class to the politics of oil nations to US agricultural subsidies to…to…to…
But Marc Lacey, one of my favorite journalists and the only individual for whom I have a [...]
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