| Apr 12, 2010 | Cartoon|Rights / Democracy
| | Rights / DemocracyI recently visited Cuba. Fidel’s image is everywhere–on fences, building façades, barroom walls–you name it. Posters touting “52 years of the Revolution” are plentiful. Ché Guevara is a god–he’s memorialized in a giant...
| Apr 8, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyWhat would Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s supporters make of Donald Kaul’s recent column about the “Compton Cookout” party at the University of California at San Diego? McDonnell proclaimed April to be “Confederate History...
| Apr 6, 2010 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThe Government Accountability Project (GAP) has filed a complaint with the Washington, DC Bar Association against Suzanne Folsom, who served as director of the World Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity (INT) from 2006 to 2008. The complaint reveals...
| Apr 5, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyYou probably know that big city newspapers around the country have cut staff–and then made more cuts on top of those. Now, the question is: Can journalists give November’s election the attention it deserves, so we the people have the information needed to...
| Mar 29, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyA recent CBS News/New York Times poll confirmed what most of us already know: Trust in government is at an all-time low. According to the survey, nearly seven in 10 Americans feel they don’t have much say in what government does, and nearly four in five think our...