What I'm really saying is Americans are unconscious. You can see it in the verbs. This isn't a value judgment, I am just intrigued by what gets in and what get out, what impacts people and how they think.

Take those Europeans. Look at the passage below from Fareed...

A failed president looks to make a hand-off to a lackluster candidate. The young brilliant upstart Barack Obama is only ahead by single digits. Why? At least part of the reason is this: John McCain knows how to control his message.

Controlling your message shows a kind of power....

There's a current of disrespect for blacks that needs to be fixed. People who are mistreated either get even or get violent. In America, of course, we have a third option, we forgive. It seems some Americans just don't get this about blacks, that's a lesson they need to learn....

prag•ma•tism
-noun. character or conduct that emphasizes practicality.

I have some respect for practicality. You know, a few voices sharing how to impact the big picture, in the way the entire body desires. Instead of all parts walking one foot forward -- one hand is picking the...

It's one of those things -- you might assume about the people standing behind the mic at a primary victory speech -- that they're local volunteers or supporters from region which voted.

So who's that black man with the boxing gloves who's appeared at least twice at Clinton's victory...

In an amazing turn of events, in this week's primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, Americans got over Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Given Senator Obama's triumph this week - you might guess the larger community of voting Americans, at least those in Indiana and North Carolina, had seen through the Wright...

Despite its promising message, the reviews of Morgan Spurlock's new film, Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?, opening this week, have not been kind. A.O. Scott, is downright dismissive:

Mr. Spurlock, more so here than in Super Size Me, advances an essentially anti-political view of the...

I've never been one of those "free Tibet" people. And it's not because I don't like Richard Gere, the outspoken celebrity for whom the plight of Tibet has become his personal cause... it's just always seemed like none of my business.

So when the hubbub about the Olympics and...

We had a chance, we really did. But the prospect that Democrats will finally "get it" is fading fast. Two examples to illustrate this point:

1. The rise and fall of Samantha Power:

Power was sharply criticized for saying that Sen. Hillary Clinton was a monster, and defined Clinton's "monstrosity"...

It's fun looking at fuck-ups because they take our eyes off ourselves. I can't prove this, but I suspect that in some way we're all hypocrites, we're all frauds. Some of us are even criminals.

I was thinking about this last night as my husband and I were on...

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Luxury for black people means being able to vote for whomever you want, like anyone else. But blacks are not there yet. I wrote recently about how I thought the Democratic Party was divided, a big tent party alternating between...

Democrats, divided we stand.

The Democratic Party has a serious problem. It doesn't see itself for what it is -- a big tent party that alternates between pandering to non-whites and insulting them.

I was thinking about this watching the South Carolina debates. If I were looking to...

American History X's Tony Kaye's abortion film Lake of Fire shows just how scared we are of women. Kaye ingeniously brings you along to that point with footage spanning from the early 1990s, there is no narration and the characters speak for themselves.

Kaye's technique made someone like me, who...

The verdict is in (and by that I mean the bulk of the reviews of her performance): Angelina Jolie is pretty damn good in A Mighty Heart, the new film on Mariane and Danny Pearl's life together. He was murdered in 2002 while working as a journalist in Pakistan....

Senator Barack Obama is black. Deborah Dickerson, the author of THE END OF BLACKNESS (Pantheon books) made a recent appearance on The Colbert Report promoting her new book, and in the process argues Obama is technically not black: a divisive, inaccurate, and harmful claim given the challenges that black people...

No surprise here. Salman Rushdie has balls. The novelist, celebrity, intellectual, thinks we've gotten too politically correct. But in doing so, he's asking us to play with fire. Are we sophisticated enough to speak about these things without killing each other?

Last Wednesday, it was a rainy and disgusting...