As a Pakistani-American, and presumably one of "these people," I believe that my people have perhaps one last, best chance to define who we are, before Glenn Beck and jihadists do it for us.
The great conundrum of our effort in Afghanistan is the more we try to fight for the Afghans, the more we seem to fight against them. There are ways to help Afghans, but occupation isn't one of them.
Before simply castigating the Salahis as weird attention seekers like the balloon-boy family, we really do need to draw back and look upon ourselves as individuals, and who we are as a nation.
We know, when we are inside MoMA or the Met, that we are experiencing art; no doubt about it. What is less clear is that we are also experiencing art when we wander the avenues and alleys.
If there's any consistency to America's foreign policy mistakes since WWII, it's the saga of brilliant men deciding upon wars in countries they barely understand; whose history they ignore--at our peril.
A lengthy and focused counterinsurgency effort might eventually produce results, but its chances of success are greatly diminished by the political climate in Afghanistan.
Politicians are too focused on scoring short term political points and securing corporate donations for their campaign. No wonder everyone is so angry.
The latest Pew poll shows the percentage of Americans who view Islam to be a violent religion is at its lowest level in recent years.
The mayor has praised Colin Powell as a man of ability, integrity and independence. It's been said before, and it will be said again, regardless of what Powell's record actually suggests.
One of the major stories in the media over the past week has been conservative outrage over the prospect of President Barack Obama addressing the nati...
There are a lot of folks out there who are as grateful today for Obama running the nation as they were in January -- but we aren't hearing much from them of late.
By tolerating and encouraging Limbaugh, the Republican leadership is fomenting racial and ethnic hatred that could have disastrous consequences for our country.
Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.
The nation's armed forces are stretched thin, very thin. Repeal of DADT is a national security issue, first and last.
Keep talking, Mr. Cantor. You're just helping to keep Jews pulling the lever for Democrats.
I went to New York to meet Obama the candidate, and in a Soho apartment he told a small group of us that his middle name was Hussein. I thought he was telling a joke.
From the moment Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the court, the Right wing made it clear that they were going to play the only card left in the Republican deck -- the race card.
Colin Powell and Robert McNamara exemplify the ever-loyal, unquestioning subordinate. McNamara self-righteously invoked Dean Acheson's quiet departure from the New Deal as his model, but Acheson's silence did not assure him a place at the World Bank. If McNamara had denounced the war, would it have made a difference? What if the very popular Colin Powell had expended some of his political capital and denounced the dubious rationalization for war against Iraq? Perhaps their dramatic gestures would have been wasted. But Archibald Cox's forceful stand against Nixon in October 1973 is instructive, showing that public resistance to a superior can make a difference.
Discrimination in our armed forces carries a potent symbolism: It tells an entire class of people that the country is not interested in their service.
Don? This thing on? I'm sure HuffPo hasn't made it into your briefing folders, but here you go: Colin Powell lied. Condi lied. I've said it before. I'll say it again.
The U.S. government, not just a handful of evil Southern planters, encoded slavery in the Constitution, and protected and nourished it for a century. The government should apologize.
