Archive for October, 2009

I have seen the future of American politics, and it is big. Big and fat.

You can get a glimpse of it in the New Jersey governor’s race, which pits the slim, distance-running, Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine against Republican Chris Christie, who is…

BALTIMORE — Perry Ealim was elated to learn he’d won a local business award from the Anne Arundel County NAACP and promptly sent a mass e-mail asking friends and associates, largely fellow Republicans, to join him at the November award ceremony.

But…

NEW YORK — At age 53, Tony Kushner finds himself at the very height of his powers and influence. He has just completed a high-profile screenplay on the life of Abraham Lincoln for director Steven Spielberg. Sometime next season on Broadway, producer…

– With a week to go before a scheduled runoff election, President Hamid Karzai’s only challenger called a gathering of top supporters for Sunday at which aides said he was likely to pull out.

The threat by former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah threw…

I am a doctor in the last year of my residency at a community hospital in northern California, and as President Barack Obama detailed his health care plan before Congress in September, I was waiting for the results of a CT scan (also called a CAT scan) of…