Walter Brasch The entire foreign policy debate focused upon the Middle East. While that region of the world has importance to the United States, there are other parts of the world that the moderators and candidates overlooked. Here are some of the critical questions. ● The U.S. is on record as ...

Tumblr sent convention correspondents to cover the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Here’s Tumblr correspondent Meg Lanker-Simons on attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. Monday: Arriving in Wonderland After cramming every passenger possible on board United Flight 741, departing Denver International Airport, the bored-looking flight crew began playing the instructional safety video. ...

Cindy Sheehan is brave and determined. She's stood up to George W. Bush, gotten arrested, and done her best to keep the anti-war community alive during the Obama years. All of those things turned out to be easier than working with Roseanne Barr. Barr, the multimillion dollar celebrity who bought the Peace ...

From the "Vote for Nobody" campaign website Not everyone who is dissatisfied with the bourgeois duopoly is turning toward alternative parties like the Greens or various socialist parties. Some are calling for a boycott of the presidential elections, modeled after boycotts of elections by groups in other countries. The group has ...

Since corporations are people, it stands to reason that houses are people too, and hence eligible to run for president, right? (Just...just go with it, okay?) At least one set of Occupy activists thinks this isn't such a bad idea, and they've started a Facebook group for that very purpose: ...

Matt J. Stannard's interview with Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein addresses several standard questions asked by progressives concerning alternative candidates, including how a Green White House and congress would deal with Republicans, and whether the Greens aren't, in fact, helping elect Mitt Romney, and whether that's not, in fact, ...

The Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz wrote of action in war that it must “be planned in a mere twilight, which - like the effect of a fog or moonlight - gives to things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.” As I attempted to research and write an article that ...

The Socialist Party, whose Presidential Candidate Stewart Alexander will be featured in an interview here at politicalcontext.org in the coming days, has released the following statement by Mr. Alexander in response to President Obama's 2012 State of the Union Address. We are reposting Mr. Alexander's commentary in full: The phrase that came to ...

Rocky AndersonFor your consideration: A few minutes ago, Rocky Anderson released a detailed statement on the differences between him and Ron Paul. We'd love to see Mr. Anderson make a statement about the differences between the Justice Party (which is really just the Rocky Anderson party right now) and the ...

In order to illustrate the problem with progressives feeling in any way good about Ron Paul, I offer the following hypothetical. Imagine a candidate, currently poised to capture a significant portion of the GOP primary vote, possessing a unique personality and message as a result of the groundwork he had laid ...