Sam Han | Eportfolio

via slate.com Utterly damning yet very “reasonable” piece on Rhee here. I agree with every word by Kahlenberg but I’d like to add that folks on the left, in particular unions, need to call out so-called Dems, who are either tacitly or explicitly aligning themselves with her. Her biggest political brokers are Dems! Posted via […]

One challenge facing observers of the uprisings spreading across north Africa and the Middle East is to read them as not so many repetitions of the past but as original experiments that open new political possibilities, relevant well beyond the region, for freedom and democracy. Indeed, our hope is that through this cycle of struggles […]

Dear Jews who may have been sitting near me and my friends in Connecticut College’s Harris dining hall fall semester, 1989, Sorry for making anti-Semitic slurs. It was an honest mistake. As a group, we would never have wanted to say anything to offend anyone along racial or ethnic lines. But that fall, we’d taken […]

via en.wikipedia.org “Shia Crescent” is a term that we will all be familiar with very soon. I’m not sure how much analytic power it has but it will be the surd in every single article regarding Mid-East politics. I can almost guarantee it. For instance: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/world/middleeast/24saudis.html?hp Posted via email from sam han’s posterous