Juan Williams was canned from his position as an analyst at NPR for honestly stating what many Americans, including apparently President Barack Obama, think: Americans are still struggling to disassociate the trauma of 9/11 from the ideology of Islam.

Williams expressed to Fox's Bill O'Reilly the anxiety he feels when...

I just watched a Sesame Street video that left me in tears. Tears of joy, that is.

"I Love My Hair" is a delightful new video featuring a little black girl muppet, singing joyously about the beauty of African American hair. Her head bops from side...

Years ago, a friend took me shopping in the bazaars of the Barbès neighborhood of Paris, one of the city's most diverse, where thousands of people -- Algerians, Moroccans, Vietnamese, West Indians, West Africans and tourists -- jostle to snare bargains in countless outdoor stalls, secondhand shops, and discount stores....

William Kristol has finally said what we've all been thinking but were either too indulgent or PC to say: Michael Steele must go.

In an open letter to the beleaguered Republican National Committee chairman, the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol called for Steele's resignation for the good of the party. Many...

The NAACP is officially irrelevant.

That became crystal clear a few days ago when the Los Angeles chapter of the 100-year-old civil rights organization put its collective credibility in jeopardy in a campaign against... a Hallmark card.

The ostensibly offensive greeting card in question was meant to congratulate new graduates...

"Photography is a way for me to preserve the part of me that is only me"
--Tipper Gore on her book "Picture This: A Visual Diary" (1996).

That quote reverberates loudly now as I sit and try to make sense of the breakup of Al and Tipper Gore. Maybe...

I will always remember it as one of the most glorious days of my life, even though today those memories are overshadowed by sadness.

It was April 17, 2008, clear and sunny, one of the first truly warm days that spring. I was nearly finished with my second year...

On Thursday night, actor Sean Penn came to Washington to accept a well-deserved humanitarian award for his work in Haiti since the Jan. 12 earthquake destroyed most of the capital city of Port au Prince and left at least 230,000 people dead.

But no one will read about that....

When Carla Bruni Sarkozy, 42, made the decision last week to slip into her dress for the state dinner at the Elysée Palace honoring the Russian president Dimitri Medvedev without donning a bra, she may have simply been making a sartorial statement. The French First Lady, who looks good in...

When I heard that Desiree Rogers, the White House social secretary and intimate of the Obamas, was finally stepping down, my first instinct was to want to defend her. Rogers's resignation seemed another clear lesson in how intolerant Washington is of mold-breakers, especially any to whom the word (or slur)...