Who's Afraid of the International Criminal Court?
In Kenya, the answer is no one at all
It’s hard to drag an elephant into a room. But once there, it’s surprisingly easy to ignore. Such was the case during Kenya’s presidential campaign, which concluded this week. After a series of galling technical mishaps, the latest vote count delivered the presidency to deputy prime minister Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate, William Ruto. READ MORE >>
The Poet Politician—Chinua Achebe’s Civil War
CHINUA ACHEBE’S FAMOUS first novel, Things Fall Apart, conspicuously borrows from Yeats. The memoir with which he bookends his long career, There Was a Country, is a far more literal explanation of what happens when “the center cannot hold.” READ MORE >>
Obama's Urban Czar: Green Visionary Or Greedy Pol?
I’ve long thought that the recently announced Office of Urban Policy will be one of the most exciting places to work in Barack Obama’s administration. READ MORE >>
Change We Can Believe In: Green Edition
Obama's energy and environment team—a Nobel scientist at the Department of Energy, a California bureaucrat at the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), and the first African American (from New Jersey!) to head the EPA—is, well, fairly gangster. In response to the good news, particularly the changes at CEQ, Grist's Dave Roberts emails: READ MORE >>
Will The New Office Of Urban Policy Go Green?
Among the major reorganizing principles telegraphed in the early days after president-elect Barack Obama’s win, I’m most intrigued by his announcement of an office of urban policy, to be stationed in the White House proper. READ MORE >>
Will A National Energy Council Solve The Problem?
I'm sifting through the impeccably organized 55-chapter "Change for America" volume released today by the Center for American Progress. READ MORE >>
A Slow Striptease On The Environment
Yesterday’s transition briefing at the office of the president-elect in Washington offered a lot of teases for the environmental community. READ MORE >>
An Orgy Of Green--meh.
Brad smartly flags Al Gore's high-profile, nudge-filled essay in the New York Times yesterday, speaking of “the Climate for Change” suggested by this historic election, and, naturally, climate change. READ MORE >>
"palling Around" In Hyde Park
My father, a welcome, perennial source of "wait and see"-ism during this campaign season, relays his experience voting first thing this morning, in sunny Hyde Park (yes, "that one"): READ MORE >>
