New Orleans This is my nomination for “picture of the year” for 2007. Just like my hero of the year from Panama, this is a picture of humanity manifesting itself past the structure of expectation and horror, and quite simply it moved me. The photographer was Rina Castelnuovo working for the New York …
Author: wade
Obama Rising
New Orleans Sometimes politics is not simply money and engineering, and in fact represents a movement of people that expresses itself in surprising and dramatic fashion. It is those times when we have to most carefully stop, look, and listen, and make sure we hear the train’s whistle clearly and either get on board …
Iowa Caucus Night
New Orleans Having run campaigns through the Iowa caucuses, it is hard to have warm feelings about them, largely because my first memory is of single-digit, gray, freezing days in Des Moines in January. In 1980 particularly we had teams of ACORN organizers and members door knocking all over the state in four foot …