New Orleans     Here are a couple of notes of interest…. *** Calvin Trillin writing in the current National Geographic reports on rickshaw pullers in Kolkata. Contrary to what I have reported over the years based on organizing and public reports along with conversations in that great Indian city, the practice of having humans labor …

New Orleans        There have been headlines all around the country based on our participation in a joint announcement at the Take Back America Conference in Washington the other day of a “loose coalition of liberal groups,” as one report called it, announcing that more than $150 million would be spent on voter registration in …

Washington In trying to sort out the problem in the Democratic primaries of voters in Michigan and Florida being disenfranchised within their party selection systems all manner of proposals have been made defining self-interest within exacting degrees. We have weighed in on the simpler issue that a manual ballot is preferable to a mail ballot. …