Civic Participation

East vs. West in Central Asia (The Moscow Times)

23 Jul 2008

In a little-noticed news story last week, U.S. lawmakers strongly condemned what they called China's brutal pre-Olympic crackdown in the far northwest Xinjiang region, which is populated by the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim Turkic ethnic group.

Related Stories (The Canton Repository)

23 Jul 2008

The organizers of Canton's sesquicentennial had no idea their once-in-a-lifetime festival would go far beyond 1955. They worked hard to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canton's founding.

Rasiej on Obama and the Role of the Netroots (The New York Observer)

23 Jul 2008

At last week's Netroots Nation convention in Austin , online-politics innovator Andrew Rasiej told Obama deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand that the campaign had still not demonstrated clearly to netroots supporters that an Obama administration would commit to online transparency and an open line of communication with them. (It was perhaps an indication of the campaign's failure to ...