While Washington is all a-twitter over two society climbers crashing the gates at an Obama soirée, in the grand sweep of history, it was a fairly minor event. No one was in danger, and no real harm was done, nobody got dosed with LSD.
President Obama: You've helped the bank barons. Now help everyday Americans -- fight to save their homes, help them through hard times, make their lives and that of their families easier.
I see racial sub-texts in the intensity of the attacks on Obama -- not in the disagreements per se, but in the viciousness of the rhetoric.
Like millions of Americans across the country mourning the death of Senator Ted Kennedy with his family and friends, I feel the loss of an icon and can't imagine American public life without him.
While you're on vacation, try to put work out of your mind. The more quickly you're able to sink into vacation mode, the more you'll gain from your time away.
It was past midnight on Inauguration Day, after the balls and all of the other events had ended. It had been an exhilarating and exhausting day. Miche...
If journalism is a front row seat to history, photographer David Hume Kennerly has been sitting in the VIP section.
Obama recognizes that although most Muslims reject violence, many Muslims do not favor our kind of political system or the full plethora of human rights as we list them.
It's been a momentous time for America and our new president, who has restored the faith of many in our nation and our government.
We're 100 days into our Obamanation. Yes, some of the initial high may have worn, but there's still a glow (for a majority of us, at least). Despite...
Obama is enjoying levels of Irish support and enthusiasm unseen since Kennedy became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Emerald Isle in 1963.
Jason Wu talks about America's new first lady, his favorite Old Hollywood stars, and the item of clothing that no woman should go without.
Time and again it becomes ever more apparent, that one underestimates the Obamas at one's peril. Think of the great care and cunning that even goes in...
For amateur photographers, the panoramic shot is something of a Holy Grail. Traditionally, a good panoramic image required professional equipment and ...
Farrakhan was much more of the generation and attitude of Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright. Barack had passed them by. He didn't see things their way. Perhaps his daughter didn't either.
These truths are self-evident, but are they fully realized? No. They are not. Complacency is what we have to fear, it's what this generation must fight.
I would like to take a moment to reflect on what Shepard Fairey has done to our world in the last year.
Japanese journalist Keiko Tsuyama is a woman with many firsts. This is largely due to timing and tenacity. Her latest project was to cover Barack Ob...
The Inauguration of our new Chief this January has miraculously, it would seem, inaugurated a shift in movie genre. Barack and Michelle looked like Fred and Ginger.
Both Obama and Marley had the ability to rally people of African descent under the banner of black pride and people of all other races under the banner of unity.
The Etta James story has less to do with her insulting jibe at Obama than that a noted African-American, a legend if you will, would have the temerity to take a shot at Obama.
