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While I'm busy with preparations for tomorrow evening's seder, our communications fellow Clare has some timely thoughts for you on food, justice, and Pesach:

After a year of international negotiations, today President Obama announced that the United States and Russia have negotiated and agreed upon a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, for short. The treaty, which must be ratified by the U.S.

Why has obesity in the U.S. doubled in the last 25 years, and how will solving this epidemic build democracy? Those are the questions that Dr. Marion Nestle grappled with at Georgetown University this week and, contrary to popular belief, the answer isn't that

Students in our nation's public schools have a long history of leading the efforts to identify, expand, and secure fundamental rights and liberties. In the latest chapter of this glorious tradition, Constance McMillen filed suit (with the help of the American

Lynn Rosenthal, the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women, recently wrote a compelling blog post on The White House Blog about how victims of domestic abuse will benefit from the recently enacted health care reform bill.

If, as I suggested yesterday, the annual AIPAC Policy Conference is political theatre, then the Banquet is the real show-stopper. It is the emotional high point, especially when, as this year, the keynote speaker is the Prime Minister of Israel.

Last night,

It's not often that a politician admits he or she made a mistake, but recently, none other than former President Bill Clinton did just that. For what did he recant? As the Washington Post reports, he apologized "for championing policies that destroyed Haiti's

I was young and inexperienced. (That should serve as an excuse if I need one). No one told me when I read Leviticus at 19-years-old that I shouldn't fall in love it. Yes, you read that correctly - Leviticus.

Watching the final hours of debate over the health insurance reform bill on Sunday evening was both exhilarating and exhausting.