Bob CollinsToday’s dispatches from Planet Protest.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
An attempt to control the influence of big money in elections runs headlong into the U.S. Constitution.
The difference between life and death for a person in Haiti might be sitting in a box in a Minneapolis warehouse.
Five at 8 – 1/20/10: The post-Coakley panic
Erich Segal’s passing forces us to confront one of those worst lines about love ever written.
Gospel of the gunsight
Can musicians be replaced?
Five at 8 – 1/19/10: A song for HaitiSen. Al Franken was on MPR’s Midday with Gary Eichten today. The highlights: Massachusetts Senate election Passage of the health care bill will be more complicated if/when a Republican is elected. “The House would have to vote for the Senate bill,” Franken says. What is likely to cause Martha Coakley’s defeat? “(She) took it for Read more →