If Skip Gates thinks he has problems with racial profiling here in Cambridge, MA, then talk to people of African descent living in Beijing. Walk in the shoes of Arabs and Africans in Paris, Roma (gypsies) in Rome or Palestinians in Tel Aviv. Racial profiling is rampant and increasing despite...

It's been a week since the official 20th anniversary commemoration of the historic Tiananmen Square demonstrations. But before the memory of those events of 1989 fade completely from our collective consciousness, let me address something that was missing from most news accounts and analyses; China's pro-democracy movement was stained by...

When the lights are out politicians often attach to bills various pet projects that would stand little chance of approval if scrutinized in the light of day. With cameras rolling, the accidental statesman, Illinois Senator Roland Burris, swore that everything was above board, only to later admit questionable fundraising attempts...

No one can blame the Obama Administration for apparently misreading the level of public rage toward AIG executives, who have collected millions in bonuses while racking up billions in taxpayer bailout money.

The president's chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, did not exactly shrug off the issue of AIG bonuses...

Rick Santelli's rant on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade has been repeated ad nauseum on You Tube and cable TV, and the effect lingers. His self-righteous outburst directed at down-on- their-luck foreclosed home buyers amounts to what the late sociologist William Ryan termed "blaming the victim" or...

When you look at the aerial shots today on MSNBC of long lines of voters snaking around polling stations in Cleveland, Atlanta and Raleigh, it is clear that dirty tricksters are going to have a difficult time keeping people at home. God knows they've tried and no doubt you've heard...

I don't know about you, but I've heard Ashley Todd's story somewhere before and that somewhere is here in Boston. Twenty year old Todd from Texas is a student volunteer for the McCain campaign in Pittsburgh. Her scarred face turned up all over the internet after alleging that she was...

Forty-eight hours from now Senator Barack Obama will deliver to the nation what is expected to be his most important address thus far. But according to the Washington Post.com several senior Clinton advisors will not be there.
This is not unexpected given the lingering anger and bitterness resulting...

It was Monday evening in February of 2004 when a particularly harsh winter arrived at the doorstep of Yusuf Sultonov. The Tajik immigrant was walking into his apartment building in St Petersburg with his young daughter, Khursheda, and son, Akobir. A gang of seven teen-aged skin-heads rushed across the...

In the five years that the U.S. military has occupied Iraq, the reasons for hating Americans have mounted: the looting of Mesopotamian treasures, rising violence and crime in the streets, Abu Ghraib, Haditha, the leveling of An Najaf, and also add "sand nigger" and "camel jockey" to the list. By...

I've known Willey since the time my parents abandoned Detroit's run-down East Side for the less-run-down West side. I was ten and Willey was in his early 20s, but wise beyond his age and ninth grade education. We often talked in the backyard over the fence about civil rights, Vietnam,...

Traveling on an air-conditioned bus along Malaysia's North-South Highway to Kuala Lumpur can not sensibly be compared to the freedom ride from Selma to Montgomery. But for the dark-skinned man seated near me, it could well have been a similar historic journey. He was a Malaysian activist of Tamil-Indian descent...