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...groups, we help our candidates hear people’s concerns: gas prices, health care, jobs. What’s more, we’re honing a new message for Republicans to send voters in the fall. One that says we’re visionary, not reactionary. We can govern, not just win. And we won’t brag about G.D.P. We know you hate that...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: An American in D.C. | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

...Many think Africa can. The emerging generation of leaders wants Mugabe and his fellow dinosaurs to go. Last year Sudanese telecoms billionaire Mo Ibrahim inaugurated a $5 million prize to reward those who govern well, and peacefully give up office. An increasing number of Africans believe they can ask for better behavior from their leaders. Observer missions from the A.U., the Southern African Development Community and the Pan-African Parliament declared Zimbabwe's poll not credible. Some went further. Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma said Africa must "in no uncertain terms, condemn what has happened"; and former Archbishop Desmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Mugabe: The Last of the Dinosaurs | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...Patriotism and the citizenship it requires should motivate the conduct of public officials, but it also thrives in the communal spaces where government is absent, anywhere Americans come together to govern their lives and their communities - in families, churches, synagogues, museums, symphonies, the Little League, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the Salvation Army or the VFW. They are the habits and institutions that preserve democracy. They are the ways, small and large, we come together as one country, indivisible, with freedom and justice for all. They are the responsible exercise of freedom and are indispensable to the proper functioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain and Obama on Patriotism | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

...process, of course, many migrants are exploited by human traffickers, whose activities Guterres calls "the most horrible crime in today's world, yet we work much harder to fight drug trafficking." He urges governments to keep a generous quota for legal migrants open "so smugglers don't have a monopoly" on getting people over borders - especially since the economies of richer countries have come to depend heavily on the labor of migrants. "Just as you can't govern against the market, you can't resolve the global labor market with border controls," Guterres says, advocating a more comprehensive approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Refugee Crisis Worsens | 6/20/2008 | See Source »

BALLOT MEASURES: As always, voters will be asked to govern themselves on a range of initiatives, from gay marriage in California to casino limits in Missouri and the legalization of medicinal marijuana in Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

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