Washington        In the push to win comprehensive immigration reform the exhilaration of the election has been tempered by concerns that this issue was being pushed to the back of the queue because of the economy and the need to get other mattes also handled quickly like health care and housing measures and worker …

Melbourne        We spent the morning meeting with and listening to the executive meeting of the Victoria Trades Hall or the central labor council of all of the unions in the state of Victoria.  The whole experience was deeply moving in many ways, not so much because of the meeting, but the tremendous and principled …

Melbourne        When first driving into the city from the airport, I thought Melbourne was significantly smaller than Sydney and more accessible, but once in the central business district and its canyons of skyscrapers the solidity of the city weighed more heavily.  Checking later, it turns out that the metro Sydney area is about 4.3 …