April 24, 2009

Torture memos released

Americans love to argue, don't we? There's no issue, political or cultural, about which serious, well-intentioned observers will not resort to calling their opponents nincompoops and other less pleasant epithets. We've gotten to see this dynamic in action again over the past week, thanks to the Obama administration's decision to release some previously classified memos about the United States' treatment of incarcerated terror suspects.

January 23, 2009

President Obama... now what?

Were you one of the 60% of Americans who watched Barack Obama's inauguration live? Maybe you watched it on TV, or streamed it over the Internet. Maybe you were one of the millions who traveled to Washington, DC to witness history in person. No matter where you were, it was a day none of us will soon forget. But now that the pageantry is behind us, what happens next?