BY SUSAN ESTRICH There is a lot about this election season that’s easy to explain. Mitt Romney won the first debate by a lot, and President Obama won the second and third, but by smaller margins. Romney’s victory meant more because it established that he was a credible candidate, which is a threshold a challenger […]

BY FROMA HARROP Dubach, LA, was named “Dogtrot Capital of the World,” and how cool is that? Very cool in the “small house” obsession embraced by urban hipsters. A dogtrot house is typically a modest home in which the cooking and living sections are divided by a breezeway [the dogtrot]. Another Southern invention is the […]

BY VERN TURNER Here we go into the last weeks of the 2012 election cycle with both major parties embroiled in a massive propaganda war...

BY SHARON MARTIN How can there possibly still be undecided voters? Haven’t the candidates hashed, rehashed, and changed their positions on the issues that matter...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Everybody will be writing about how a different Barack Obama came out Tuesday night from the one we saw in the first debate. True enough. On Tuesday night, the president took the stage and fought for his presidency: strong, assertive, intense, defending his record, criticizing his opponent, well-schooled on both of their […]