When a friend of mine jokingly insinuated I that I might consider enrolling in an anger management course so that "we don't get shot" the next time we go to the movies -- which she is 100 percent convinced almost happened during our last trip -- I thought maybe, just...

This piece republished courtesy of TheLoop21.com for which Goff is a political writer.

Years ago, before I reached adulthood, I watched a scene on one of my favorite shows, Law & Order, in which a black attorney says the following to his white former supervisor: "You once asked...

With the chaos of the Christmas season beginning earlier and earlier each year (I swear I heard a Chipmunks holiday song playing in some store back in early October and let me just say that they're lucky no firearms were sold there), I know that I am not alone in...

Below is the second part of my list addressing what I consider the messaging missteps that are holding the marriage equality movement back. You can view the first part of the list and story of what inspired me to write it, here. For your reference I have included the...

Recently while appearing on NPR as part of a discussion of race relations one year after President Obama's election, I was reminded that while black Americans have come far in a lot of respects -- number of black elected officials nationally, first black president, etc. -- we still remain a...

We've all been there.

A girlfriend decides to marry a guy you've never really been that crazy about, or worse, can't stand. Whether it was because you suspect him of cheating on her while she was away one weekend (or know for a fact that he did), or because...

To the chagrin of my editors I rarely read or respond to comments on pieces that I write.

But my mom does. And she felt that it was imperative that I "clear my name," which was being "trashed" in response to my most recent post for TheLoop21.com, republished...

Raise your hand if you are still filled with anger when you hear the name AIG and picture the more than $100 million of your tax dollars that were delegated--without your consent--for employee bonuses there.

Now raise your hand if you were angry when you learned that Citigroup...

I used to think that when conservatives denounced the so-called "Hollywood liberal elite" as being essentially amoral and out of touch with real Americans, they were being a bit harsh. And when Sarah Palin implied that middle America was somehow more sensibly American than those of us sin-lovin'-anti-religion-anti-America-fancypants-big city folk...

This story republished courtesy of TheLoop21.com.

I'm not sure when it first hit me, that the future of our country, particularly when it comes to race relations, is really looking up. Perhaps it was when a member of the Boston Police Department referred to Professor Henry Louis Gates as...

Let me start off by saying that I am a true tennis fan and player (albeit an incredibly out of shape one compared to my not so illustrious days on my high school team another lifetime ago). I should also add that I am enough of a tennis nerd that...

To quote the songstress Alanis Morissette, "Isn't it ironic" that the same politicians who denounce welfare recipients tend to be the same ones who support cuts to education and after school programs -- the very programs that make a student less likely to dropout of school and therefore less likely...

As I watched the film Mississippi Burning the other night on television, I couldn't help being struck by how much has changed -- not just since the dark days of segregation in which the film is set, but since I first saw the film as a child. Watching some of...

About this time last year I was still having passionate debates with friends -- fellow feminists -- who were convinced that the reason Barack Obama was on his way to Denver to become the Democratic nominee for president, was because a savagely sexist media had served up the nomination to...

If cats have nine lives then Bill Clinton has at least a dozen.

To borrow a phrase from one of my all time favorite Governors, the late, great Ann Richards from my home state of Texas, there have been many times, over many years, where many of us assumed...

As I said during a recent appearance on CNN's Lou Dobbs the GOP members of Congress tasked with thwarting Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination certainly have their work cut out for them. The woman not only appears to be lacking serious skeletons in her closet, but hers is so squeaky...

How ironic. Between the economy and the weather -- seemingly endless rain that has robbed us of half our summer -- many of us New Yorkers have wanted to spend the last few weeks tucked safe in bed with the covers pulled over our heads. But not today.

Just as...

As a native of Texas, I sometimes look back on the political atmosphere that defined my childhood growing up in Rep. Tom Delay's district, compared to the political atmosphere that defines my life today as a proud Manhattanite, and can't help but laugh. It has been quite...

I'm going to channel a character from one of my favorite shows for a moment. As the Golden Girls' Sophia Petrillo might say, "Picture it..." Only instead of asking you all to picture Sicily, sometime, I'm going to ask you to "Picture it...Las Vegas, 1960." The Miss USA pageant is...

As if the video "Gathering Storm" wasn't funny enough, now comes perhaps the funniest punchline of all from the right: former mayor and failed presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has begun a campaign to re-brand himself as the family values candidate should he run for Governor of New York.