Any politician who fails to fight for a federal student loan program will be hurting themselves politically and punishing college students financially.
Welcome to the "open carry" movement, an effort by "gun rights" extremists to foist their interpretation of the Second Amendment on the rest of us by openly carrying handguns in public places.
Let's not allow the Justices' dangerous logic to undermine democratic decision making America needs now more than ever. We can commit to choosing elected leaders who grasp what we've lost.
At Berkeley High, the achievement gap persists because privileged parents thwart efforts to develop equity between students, and use their social capital to get their way, even if it's against the interest of their kids.
As a member of the Harvard Class of 1968, I approached my 25th Reunion in 1993 with some misgivings over the honoring of Colin Powell. Little did I anticipate that I'd personally speak with him there.
The story that everyone wants to tell is that the Democratic Party is disheartened and disintegrating. Teabagger Republicans are juiced up and on top. Or so the media says, over and over again.
It's early 2011 and Hillary Clinton calls a press conference announcing her intention to run against Obama for the nomination. In early March 2011, MSNBC apologizes for the spectacle of seeing Chris Matthews's head explode.
The coverage of the anniversary of the Greensboro sit-in ignored a subsequent civil rights event of perhaps comparable significance: The creation of our nation's first Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Our policies have helped move us from a situation where we were losing a nightmarish 750,000 jobs per month to one in which we are a lot closer to adding jobs, on net, on a regular basis.
There is a startling degree of anger in America right now. Pick an issue and you'll find people of all political persuasions yelling about it. But it remains primarily those on the far right that couch their vitriol in what the historian Richard Hofstadter referred to as the "paranoid style."
States can't do traditional deficit spending. But they can do precisely what we need most: put bond measures on ballots that would create capacity-building, capital projects and put people to work.
What is missing from the DADT debate is the stories of soldiers who survived it, who know what it is like waiting for the other shoe to drop if someone suspects too much. This was my life for nearly five years in the U.S. Army.
Cass Sunstein has come under fire for suggesting that it would be a good idea to deploy federal agents to "cognitively infiltrate" political groups that believe in conspiracy theories.
While many have been arguing that the only visible political movement on the ground these days is the loose band of tea partiers, the protests at the University of California reflect another political force.
It's time to admit that the right wing has achieved its main goal and that all the sturm und drang now drifting from those quarters is an attempt to change the subject in hopes we won't notice.
If voters reject the Dems in November, it won't be because they legislated too far to the left, or to the right: It will be because they were outflanked by their opposition and didn't get to legislate at all.
What I find really amazing about this is that Beck and his followers think that Barack Hussein Obama has chosen his name as if their names were not given to them at birth.
The New Right is succeeding because it has a comprehensive worldview. The worldview is more than a set of policies, it's a complete way of thinking about human nature, history, our present circumstances and the future.
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was never a good policy. The only impact has been to deny highly qualified individuals the opportunity to serve, and deprive the military of their services.
