by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 8, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis London May 8. I spent May Day in London including ten minutes or so observing what amounted to a minuscule Socialist Workers demonstration whose participants had assembled on a small green near Karl Marx’s house in Islington and the pub across...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 22, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis I was skeptical about the durability of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement when I first saw the news of its signing. It seemed to be too good to be true. The bitter civil war between the Ulster government and the IRA that had engulfed Northern...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Sep 8, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeTake the time to read Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices. Read it carefully and take it seriously, as many critics have not. Instead, having salivated in anticipation of its publication date, they swooped in, intending to gorge on juicy (but...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Nov 18, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Some Right-leaning members of Congress take an all or nothing approach to policy and legislation. To them compromise is a violation of principle with connotations of betrayal and heresy. The martyrdom of starvation is infinitely preferable to...
by John C. Dyer | May 5, 2013 | Monitor
By John Charles Dyer, UK Correspondent 3 May 2010. This week the UK demonstrated one old political maxim – all politics is local — and one new one — all spin is national. In yesterday’s local elections Conservatives and Liberal Democrats...
