Month: February 2010

Here’s a question. With news that former senator Dan Coats is going to challenge Evan Bayh it looks like some of our most conservative Democrats are vulnerable to defeat in November. But, aside from the overall political...

Cross posted fromNourishing the Planet.Jessica Milgroom isn’t your typical graduate student. Rather than spending her days in the library of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, her research is done in the...

I’m sorry for my absence from these pages of late. My life has been very hectic with family and friends lately, particularly one friend who was the victim of a vicious and brutal hate crime from which my friend is still...

The Illinois primaries have a few squeakers tonight. It looks like Alexi Giannoulias will beat David Hoffman, but they haven’t called it yet. That’s the senate race. The governors races are tight on both sides. The...

President Obama faced a remarkable political challenge in his recent State of the Union.  Beset on all sides—by populists on the left and right who are highly suspicious of him and all of institutional Washington, by...