Our Guide in Kenya a few months ago is a very interesting guy. He’s a college educated sociologist who has been a Photo-Safari Guide ever since they outlawed Big Game hunting [30 years ago]. Throughout our trip, he talked of the coming election, the tribal politics, the sociology of it all [a sociology of rampant [...]
Voter ID Court Challenges Expected to Have Big Impact on 2008 Elections
A pair of closely watched voting rights cases headed to the Supreme Court next week could have a greater effect on the 2008 elections than anything happening in Iowa or New Hampshire. The high court will hear oral arguments Jan. 9 in two [...]
Will Justice Go After Cheney?
By Dan Froomkin Thursday, January 3, 2008; 12:46 PM
How high will the newly-launched criminal investigation into the CIA’s destruction of interrogation tapes go? And will it eventually target Vice President Cheney? Cheney has been the administration’s central figure on all things related to torture. It was Cheney [...]