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...democracy in whatever the opposite of action is, I walked into the Westridge Elementary School in West Des Moines to caucus. To my left, in a library full of Laura Ingalls Wilder books, the Democrats assembled for their uniquely convoluted system, which involves gathering next to the sign of your favorite candidate, hoping you can collect more than 15 percent of the voters in the room, trying to convince the followers of the least popular candidates to join you - and, most of all, re-explaining the rules every few minutes. To my right, in the unadorned gym, the Republicans...
...discussion itself is another sign of the nation's ambivalence about the ultimate, irreversible punishment. And as long as we're ambivalent, we'll continue to have the system we have made for ourselves--inefficient, beyond repair and increasingly empty. A Crumbling System Fewer than three of every hundred death sentences are ever carried out. Among the 36 states that have the death penalty, only 10 performed an execution last year. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...sense of humor. Iowa could also deliver a better-than-expected evening for Arizona Senator John McCain, who was given up nearly for dead a few months ago yet is now poised - but not guaranteed - to come in third in the GOP contest, behind Romney and Huckabee. (In another sign that the Arizona Senator is back - and sure to face the questions that come with being a front runner - McCain will appear this Sunday on NBC's Meet The Press.) Rudy Giuliani, for months the notional GOP frontrunner in national polls, has hardly contested the state...
...Reagan coalition is in danger of splintering among economic, religious and national security conservatives - and there is no sign yet that anyone can emerge quickly to patch the pieces together. Tonight, McCain campaign officials were exalting Huckabee's win, because it takes a piece out of Romney as they all head to New Hampshire. "What had to happen tonight happened," said one McCain hand...
...quiet life in Pakistan - and may do little for the U.S. as well. For what the world desperately needs if Pakistan is to avoid another 60 years of tragedy is a political settlement there that does not depend on military men, dynasties - or the infusion of U.S. dollars. No sign of that...