Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

At the Columbia News21 project on immigration and elections, we began our reporting this summer with many story ideas and a whole country to work with. To help focus our efforts, we put together a Google map (see below) where we indicated electoral races that might be useful in our coverage of immigration (blue pins), […]

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The Congressional seat in the 22nd District of Texas has been much in the news in recent years. Former Republican Majority House Leader Tom DeLay held it for 11 years, until his indictment in 2006 (for campaign finance violations) triggered a bizarre chain of events, that included a general election with a Republican write-in candidate […]

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Editor’s Note: Columbia News21 Fellow Don Duncan has been travelling in Afghanistan, following an Afghan refugee returning there to visit for the first time since being resettled in Phoenix, Ariz. Watch for additional updates on their two-week journey, which is being supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.
When Dost Mohammad Khairy’s computer goes […]

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So I’ve finally finished my covering violence project — Accepting Defeat. You can check it out here.
I’ve posted this feature because I think one issue “at stake” with the election that we haven’t talked about is gun control. When Democrats had control of the house in the early 1990s, they made gun control one of […]

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From France to Turkey to India, people around the world are gripped by the excitement of the U.S. primaries, writes Simon Robinson in Time magazine.
Foreign media coverage of the primary process so far has been unprecedented.
Some think it’s way too much — back in January, for instance, the BBC’s reporting drew scores of complaints […]

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Senator Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary in Ohio, putting a stop Senator Barack Obama’s winning streak. But in the weeks leading up to the election, both candidates marched around the state and spoke to the perennial Ohio concern: loss of manufacturing jobs. White House seekers have been doing it for years. […]

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Si puo’ fare: it’s how you say YES WE CAN in Italian and it’s all the rage as Italy braces for yet another snap election next month. Si puo’ fare is the slogan for Democrat Walter Veltroni, the former Rome mayor now running for Prime Minister against controversial media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. A professed admirer […]

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