| Sep 17, 2012 | Rights / DemocracySeated in the upper deck at San Francisco’s AT&T Park, during a Giants-Rockies game, you wouldn’t know millions of Americans are underwater and unemployed, or that the 2012 elections were less than two months away. The large man seated next to me cups...
| | Rights / DemocracyTo borrow from President Lyndon Johnson’s colorful analysis of a Nixon speech, “I may not know much, but I know chicken [poop] from chicken salad.” Paul Ryan, the GOP’s current vice-presidential nominee, has spent his career in government...
| Aug 29, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyA longstanding gender barrier recently cracked in the heart of the Old South. Augusta National Golf Club accepted two women — former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and businesswoman Darla Moore — as its first female members. This change comes years...
| Jul 23, 2012 | Environment / HealthThe Olympic Games can draw unexpected visitors. Remember the Jamaican bobsled team? This year, it’s the delegation from nowhere. Beginning in the games’ opening week, residents along the rocky coast of southwest England will meet Nowhereisland. No — what?...
| May 14, 2012 | Environment / HealthThe apparent suicide of Junior Seau, the former NFL superstar linebacker, has again raised the age-old question: “Is playing football dangerous, as in potentially lethal?” Let me think about that. You’ve got a sport where 240-pound people are paid to...
