The G.O.P. ran out of steam and ideas well before George W. Bush took office and Tom DeLay ran amok, and it is now more representative of 20th-century South Africa during apartheid than 21st-century … more →
Africa is a CountrySean Jacobs wrote 16 hours ago: The G.O.P. ran out of steam and ideas well before George W. Bush took office and Tom DeLay ran amok … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 5 days ago: My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we sp … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 week ago: Its old news now that when Barack Obama, then a US Senator visited South Africa in 2006 (as part of … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 week ago: When Barack Obama, then a new US Senator from Illinois, traveled to Kenya in 2006 (part of a four-n … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 week ago: There are times when the usually glacial pace of social progress accelerates to such a degree that … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 week ago: For me, the significant achievement is not that, as a black man, he became president. It is that, a … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 week ago: The mood around here is still celebratory (”Obama is President” newspaper front pages i … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 week ago: Now that the US election is over and the knives are out among Republicans, comes the news plastered … more →
ageorgegal wrote 1 week ago: There were two major events in Stockholm last where Americans and Swedes came together to watch the … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 1 week ago: Been an exhausting, but exhilarating few days here. Yesterday my wife went out and voted at 6am, th … more →
caryl wrote 1 week ago: I was supposed to write ‘history in the making’ but as you all may have seen or heard on … more →
mrstreasures wrote 2 weeks ago: Who are the “swing voters”? They are the people who are not hard-core supporters of ei … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 2 weeks ago: All the polls predict we’ll wake up with a President Obama on Wednesday. So does my 3 year … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 2 weeks ago: I don’t get the sometimes New York Times columnist. Last week, he connected (some would argue, … more →
christeven1 wrote 2 weeks ago: I have often based my views of America through my own experiential and societal perspectives. Thr … more →
andreienghis wrote 2 weeks ago: 1st of November, just three days to go until the US elections. What’s the mood in Europe? In l … more →
divasoria wrote 2 weeks ago: i am not american but i’ve taken a deep interest in american politics because sadly, whatever … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 2 weeks ago: When Obama launched into his story with “Because I love pie,” a woman out in that sea o … more →
christeven1 wrote 2 weeks ago: Is America ready for Barack Obama as its next president? I am not sure if America is ready to bre … more →