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Why does the world's greatest democracy offer just two choices? |
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Voters are bored of both Republicans and Democrats, but a Pop Idol-style contest to find an alternative candidate has also failed to excite "The nature of power is to hang on to it all costs. And that's what Republican and Democrat parties have done. The maze of rules and cost of getting on to the ballot in 50 different states is daunting to any potential third-party candidate for president - by design. And that is why, on the very rare occasion that someone has had the fortitude to take on the entrenched powers, they've usually had very deep pockets, like the billionaire Ross Perot, who was the last third-party candidate." |
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Capitalism at a crossroads |
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World leaders gather as eurozone debt fears wipe billions off markets Rarely have the world's most powerful people looked so impotent. |
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Chinese Communist Party Elite Send Kids to US Colleges |
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Critical of U.S. values, China’s elite still send their children to top U.S. colleges Andrew Higgins and Maureen Fan / WashPost
Costs fuel perceptions of Communist Party corruption. In some ways, the rush to U.S. campuses by the party’s “red nobility” simply reflects China’s national infatuation with American education. China has more students at U.S. colleges than in any other foreign country. They numbered 157,558 in the 2010-11 academic year, according to data compiled by the Institute of International Education — up nearly fourfold in 15 years. |
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How to Choose a Running Mate |
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Mitt Romney faces a range of considerations as he makes his most important decision as the likely Republican nominee: Selecting someone to join him on the ticket. |
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Killer Robots - Science fiction? |
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A drone may never have a sense of morality—but it's possible one could perform better than a human in sparing the innocent. |
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"Mitt Romney fails to see America" |
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Colbert I. King / WashPost Mitt Romney is focused on America’s largest, and slowest-growing, racial group: his own. |
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How London bankers learned to gamble. |
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Risk and the City How London bankers learned to gamble. |
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Will immigration decide the Presidential election? |
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Will immigration decide the Presidential election? |
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Why Barack Obama Needs to Keep Joe Biden |
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He's the most effective vice-president in history. |
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WSJ: What the Chinese Want |
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Consumers in China are increasingly modern in their tastes, but they are not becoming 'Western.' How the selling of coffee, cars and pizza sheds light on a nation racing toward superpower status. |
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Eduardo Saverin: Conservative Hero |
 Saverin has every right to move. The New York Post editorial board flew to Saverin's aid, saying Saverin's decision is "rational" and "is his absolute right." Calling the Schumer bill a "shakedown," the Post writes: "Innovators don’t have to stick around just to be shaken down." |
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Should You Renounce Your U.S. Citizenship? |
Should You Renounce Your U.S. Citizenship? A Facebook billionaire has sparked interest in 'expatriating' to skirt big tax bills. Here's what you need to know. |
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How White Will the Electorate Be? |
The economic dislocations of the Great Recession have undone much of the organizing work that Democrats performed in 2008. Not long ago I spoke with a union leader who told me that a huge share of her members were no longer registered at their previous address. The bulk of the union’s political work was simply finding them. Many had moved or were living in somebody else’s home.
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Did Obama bring the "Birther Thing" on himself? |
 Obama's literary agent says he was 'born in Kenya'. How did the mainstream media miss this? Today, the President has satisfied all right-minded folk that he was in fact born in Hawaii. Breitbart.com itself has always rejected the absurd cult of birtherism. In fact, this story is really the opposite of birtherism – Breitbart infers that in the past Obama encouraged people to think that he was born abroad in order to establish an identity as an authentic, exotic voice in the debate on racial politics. |
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WSJ: How Women Can Get Ahead |
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Her name is Elizabeth Keadle — better known as Liz — a well-heeled Democratic donor from Southern California in her 50s with a background in science and a devotion to environmental causes. |
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NewYorker: Vetting Obama, The Right Way |
Vetting Obama, Again by Alex Koppelman / The NewYorker The theory that Americans would reject the President if only we really knew about Jeremiah Wright ignores the last campaign… There’s a long list of things for which some conservatives will never forgive John McCain. High on it is the decision he made—whether out of principle, political sense, or both—that his campaign would not use Obama’s relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright against him. Even before the race was over, McCain’s own running mate was making her feelings on the subject plain. In October of 2008, during an interview she gave to Bill Kristol, then a columnist for the New York Times, she said that she wanted the Republican ticket to take off its gloves and tell voters “who the real Barack Obama is.” |
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From the Grave, Breitbart Strikes... |
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The militarised policing of dissent |
 Amy Goodman: The security operation against antiwar protest in Chicago is more disturbing evidence of the militarised policing of dissent |
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Obama Considers Sharing More on Drone Program |
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The Obama administration is weighing policy changes that for the first time would lift a veil of secrecy from its program of drone strikes in U.S. global counterterrorism operations.
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Romney forced to denounce racially-charged attack on Obama |
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Mitt Romney has been forced to denounce plans by a conservative campaign group to mount a racially-charged attack on President Barack Obama to help the Republicans win the US presidential election. |
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The BOTTOM for Newspapers? |
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to buy 63 newspapers for $142 million Paul Farhi / WashPost Richmond-based Media General says deal includes sale of its flagship Richmond Times-Dispatch. |
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Chuck Schumer Grandstands Over Eduardo Saverin |
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