I was so close to writing a post explaining why during this historic election I wasn't going to vote. Well, I wanted to write about it but didn't because of all the potential finger-pointing. Our society does not look favorably on those who don't vote. The people in my world...

The U.S. presidential election has led to fairly significant debate on black-white race issues as well as gender politics. This campaign has triggered passionate hatred for Muslims and Arabs in this country, and yet that form of racism and prejudice has barely been discussed.

Just yesterday an elderly woman at...

I am not sure what my family or my synagogue did to me while I was growing up, but I have a soft spot in my heart for my religion. I don't think I believe in God, and I can never keep the stories of Jacob and Isaac and that...

Much of the international community has been watching the U.S. presidential campaign with keen interest -- in the results as well as in the daily drama (including discussion of lipstick on pigs and the Alaskan view of Russia). OffTheBus writers have spent the week covering the election by looking at...

This week OffTheBus is publishing a variety of stories that cover the presidential election from an international perspective.

Be sure to check out our news stories and commentaries that look at how the election is covered in countries around the world and what the world community is saying about...

Watching Sarah Palin accept the Republican nomination for vice president, all I could think was that I am so grateful my mother did not run for president or VP while I was a baby. This is hardly good judgment on Palin's part.

Such a sentiment is surely anti-feminist of...

Every couple of weeks an email from Baghdad pops up in Iraq War veteran Joey Coon's inbox at his home in Washington, D.C. It's Coon's 23-year-old Iraqi interpreter, nicknamed Dash, pleading for help to get out of Iraq and into the United States. Dash feels in constant grave danger that...

John McCain talks a lot about the MiddleEast and the threat of "radical Islamic terrorism." He challenged Barack Obama to take a tour with him of Iraq so McCain could educate him on the country -- so Obama could get in touch with the facts on the ground. In his...

Helping survivors of the cyclone that devastated much of Burma six weeks ago is risky business. The junta has arrested celebrities who tried to deliver aid to the Delta region, sending a clear warning that such help wasn't appreciated. Donors have been harassed and even jailed for their...

Sen. Barack Obama used his speech in Minnesota tonight to discuss his planned policy towards Iraq, promising that if he becomes president he will end the war and withdrawal the troops. He said it's now time to bring the troops home and demand more from the Iraqi politicians.

Wesleyan University, my alma mater, is a small liberal arts school that gets a disproportionate amount of media coverage, usually for its uber-liberal ways. It has made the press for having a naked dorm and co-ed rooms. This time we made the headlines, and we didn't have to...

One thing is certain about the outcome of this November's presidential election -- whoever wins will have the monumental job of improving America's standing around the world. He or she (I'm one of the few who won't pronounce Hillary Clinton's campaign dead until it's official) should start by loudly proclaiming...

In the midst of a massive humanitarian crisis in Burma in which 1.5 million people are at risk of dying from disease, local government officials in Rangoon have been selling aid and bribing residents in order to turn a profit, according to sources in Rangoon. It has been eight days...

Silda is everywhere. In email exchanges between friends, in discussions around office water coolers, on television shows and radio reports, in op-eds and articles. In the midst of a massive scandal concerning sex, money and a self-righteous-turned-self-destructive resigning governor, our country has chosen the wife to...

When I was living in Rangoon my boyfriend Morning (now my husband) brought me along to a birthday party for his friend's daughter. I was excited to meet more of Morning's friends, and I thought this would probably become another interesting cultural experience. I would get to see how Burmese...

So much for Sen. John McCain being a man of principle who stood up to the Bush Administration and fellow Republicans. Turns out, he too is just another politician hungry for votes.

On Wednesday McCain voted against a Senate bill that would ban waterboarding and all forms of physical interrogation...

The following piece was produced by the Huffington Post's OffTheBus project.

The uprising and subsequent military crackdown in Burma is one of the few issues on which Republicans and Democrats can agree wholeheartedly, and yet they also seem to concur that voters would rather hear about something else.

Perhaps...