February is Black History Month. As I try to speak over your applause, I realize that the normal Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass stories just won't do for me this time. I tend to be a realist, so I need to be able to draw a time line, a time line that I can relate to.

As reported in this week's issue of "New Scientist" magazine, research by Rice University professor of political science John Alford indicates that what is on one's mind about politics may be influenced by how people are wired genetically.

With the release Wednesday of the Winograd committee's final report on the Second Lebanon War, the focus has shifted to its political aftermath.

Federal Cabinet of Australia has signed off on a plan to establish a new body to oversee infrastructure development across the country.

The Lakota Freedom Delegation, which in December declared that the Lakota people were withdrawing from their treaties with the United States and reasserting their sovereignty as an independent state, is acting without the support of the Treaty Council, the traditional government of the Lakota, Wikinews has learned.

Carmen Kontur Gronquist, who is also the fire department’s executive secretary, said the photos were taken before she was elected mayor three years ago, and she saw no reason to remove them from the Internet after taking office.

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. today announced that they have formed two new publishing partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region. The world’s largest society publisher will publish Basic & Applied Pathology and Pacific Focus from 2008.

The gulf between how Democrats and Republicans interpret political events has become a central feature of American politics over the last fifty years.

In an article published by Time Magazine, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said that he commends Putin's decision not to run for President a third time and sees nothing wrong in his desire to influence events even after the end of his term.

UK Politics and International Studies research has been shown to world leading according to a new report by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Political Studies Association (PSA) and the British International Studies Association.

Celebrities were supporting Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and huge amounts of money were invested in his campaign ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections. Yet all that may not be enough for his conservative party to stay in power.

A paper in the International Journal of Japanese Sociology – published by Wiley-Blackwell finds that the pattern of social fluidity in East Asian countries differ substantially from their Western counterparts, thus rendering the Western research models inadequate for the Asian context.