In the past year, we’ve heard President Obama and Governor Romney talk about everything from Libya to the London Olympics. However,...

It’s the first day of kindergarten. Aren’t you cute? You, five years old, walk out the door to school, maybe for the first time –...

Here’s some food for thought: How have Hope-Changers from 2008 dealt with Obama being “The Man”? Brown may be a liberal school, but do we...

Last week, Spain introduced an additional €40bn austerity policy in face continuing recession, unemployment, and violent separatist cries...

My tour of European austerity’s next stop is Germany. However, I have criticized austerity without putting it into context. I have simply...

Montana is not a battleground state, but it has become the latest battleground in campaign finance. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court...

Marked ballot. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Although the country as a whole has been devastated by the current economic...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled “Lena Rants About Something” Wednesday column to bring you important news—in a few hours, the...

Mitt Romney emerged from last week’s debate the undisputed champion and the owner of a substantial bounce in the polls, but he was almost...

Why Obama lost, in 300 words: As a Democrat, what’s infuriating isn’t that Obama lost; it’s why he lost. It’s so historical, so...

The first 2012 Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney debate is coming up on Wednesday. It’s hard to imagine either of the two participants saying...

Last Wednesday, the New York Times ran an opinion article by Theresa Brown entitled “The Human Cost of the Second Amendment.” In her...

As an election cycle rolls on, polls from some of the nation’s most elite universities indicate a strong lean to the left, although...

Rhode Island is in rough economic shape. The state’s unemployment rate in August was 10.7%, second worst in the nation. The average...

The debate. Candidates’ final chance to make pitches. The make-or-break moment to revive campaigns. A bad performance that loses the...

“The first thing the government does in an election year,” former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou admitted in 2009, “is to...

Romney’s new ad is a Frankenstein of formerly-discarded messaging strategies. Will it work? Supposedly, Mitt Romney crossed the “choice...

In SCOTUSblog’s recent article, “Same-sex marriage symposium: Justice Scalia’s constitutional case for gay marriage,” author Dale...

With a greater chunk of non English-speaking voters headed to the polls in swing states next month than ever before in American electoral...

As a child growing up in South India I was often told by my South Indian nanny to stay out of the Sun. “Or else you’ll be black like me...