Tag: Politics
Pork for Salmon on Alaska Airlines Plane
by Michael Yessis | 10.05.05 | 9:41 AM ET
The money that paid for the fish on an Alaska Airlines plane—a “Salmon-Thirty-Salmon”—comes from a $500,000 United States government grant to support the salmon industry, reports ABC News. Critics of congressional pork are having a field day across the web. Rightly so.
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Yahoo! BuzzBurma’s Ongoing Cycle of Despair
by Jeff Greenwald | 06.29.05 | 6:50 PM ET
Photo by Rolf Potts Burma was once known as the "Golden Land" by Western adventurers. Not any longer. Under a tyrannical regime, the country's spiritual and de facto political leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, languishes in prison. For her 60th birthday, Jeff Greenwald has a gift idea.
Following Tocqueville
by Jim Benning | 04.06.05 | 5:01 PM ET
The Politics of Travel
by World Hum | 10.27.04 | 9:35 PM ET
Travel writers on the 2004 U.S. presidential election
Administering the Beer Test in Europe
by Jim Benning | 04.22.03 | 3:32 PM ET
James Gilden wondered how Americans would be received in Europe these days, so he went to Paris, Berlin and London to find out. He interviewed Americans about their experiences, and he ordered beer at bars in each of the cities and dutifully studied the bartenders’ responses. What did he find? Despite the controversy over the war, he writes in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, the Americans he talked with were having a grand time, encountering no ill will. As for the beer, “My beers were delivered with no more or no less aplomb or foam than in any of my previous visits to London,” he writes.
Whew. We’d hate to think that politics could get in the way of a good beer.
A Time of Living Dangerously?
by Chuck Newman, Chris Dickson | 10.18.01 | 12:55 AM ET
Stories of unrest in Jakarta run almost daily on CNN and BBC. Chuck Newman and Chris Dickson, however, aren't yet ready to flee.
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