Innermost Parts

IF YES….. I received this e-mail from the national Democracy for America group, one of the many causes I support and wish I was more involved with but sadly am not…Don’t let the same thing happen to you.  (I love you, Howard Dean!) It takes three things to win elections — good candidates, good campaigns, and [...]

The American Enterprise Institute is an explicitly right-wing organization. They have a new report out claiming that we students study an average of 14 hours a week, which is 10 hours less than people in the 60′s. Their summary: In 1961, the average full-time student at a four-year college in the United States studied about [...]

What could come of dozens of the nation’s richest people getting together? The options are limitless. Bill&Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet, longtime billionaires and philanthropists, have teamed up to create a network of America’s richest people, reaching out to the Forbes 400 in order to ask for donations. However, this campaign, now known as The Giving Pledge, goes further than any have in [...]

Want more even more Sahar in your life? I made a personal miniblog to document things that make me smile and keep track of my adventures. Also sometimes writing for Innermost Parts feels constricting. I have to worry about style, staying on topic, being witty, etc. So this’ll be a place to let off steam [...]

I just finished a reported New Yorker article by George Packer on the modern senate. It’s multifaceted and hard to to summarize. You should read it. Anyways, it got me thinking about our Senate. You know, the Union Senate. I don’t think anyone has a good opinion of the Senate. Its composition seems to change [...]

That EJ Dionne article continues to impress. Let me just excerpt 2 paragraphs that I found gripping: And I must pause to praise the following sentence: “No one is more temperamentally conservative than a Manhattan leftist living in a rent-controlled apartment and holding tenure at a university; his or her way of life is inevitably [...]