There's a raging disdain and disrespect for this president unseen in U.S. political history. And it's because he's black. I'll say it again: it's because he's black.
Eric Deggans | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media
It took a former president using blunt language to get the nation's chattering class to focus on an issue that has troubled some since the first first Tea Bag protestor tossed a pouch of Lipton into the Potomac.
Michael Wolff | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
How is it that racism has been so successfully rejected as a description, precisely by the people it is meant to describe? How can they so stubbornly deny their obvious feelings, and why would they want to?
Christian Science Monitor | Patrik Jonsson | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
In asserting that some Obama foes are prejudiced, the ex-president rekindles a difficult discussion. The right sees it as a way to squelch legitimate ...
Karen Finney | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Change -- even change you want or need -- can be scary. Some articulate these fears by saying: "I don't recognize my own country."
AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama doesn't believe he's being criticized because of his race. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said...
John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
The color of the President's skin does not matter to the lunatics dictating the direction of the Republican Party. I mean, it matters in that it's icing on the cake -- but they were baking regardless of all that.
Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
Carter's comments came as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, said the U.S. military would need to send more troops to Afghanistan to battle the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
ATLANTA (AP) -- Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress ...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Jody Powell, who was White House press secretary and among the closest and most trusted advisers to President Jimmy Carter, died Mo...
Bryan Farrell | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Obama is clearly familiar with Gandhi's sayings since he borrowed one for his election campaign. So what doesn't he understand about the one that goes: "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"?
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The Kennedys knew how to strive for noble causes, step by step. They would make deals, but only to benefit the best causes.
Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
Freed from his own presidential aspirations after the 1980 primaries, Ted Kennedy was able to concentrate on taking the fight directly to Congress. In doing so, he made liberalism a legislative reality.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
With the beautiful Kennedy brothers now all at rest, the high principles, steady hand and well-earned sweat of their life's work will never be lost and never will die.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
In Cairo, President Obama rightly said that the U.S. should not be in the business of imposing democracy, but can we be indifferent to those who seek to embrace it?
International Middle East Media Center | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
Former US President Jimmy Carter and his wife fasted in solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip who are living under siege....
Ellen Snortland | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
We need a voting holiday to celebrate women getting the right to vote. Let's make the suffragists icons for peaceful non-violent social change.
Dennis Perrin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media
Kennedy was as much of a progressive force as this rotten system allows. With his wealth, he could've easily been a Republican and pushed for perks for the rich. Instead, he championed the powerless.
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
From the outside, he appeared to be one of the most liberal and partisan Democrats in the Senate. From the inside, he was one of the most bipartisan and constructive members.
William Bradley | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Though a most imperfect man, Ted Kennedy made his choice over a life of ease, and America is much the better for it.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
The question of life's meaning is a spiritual one -- one that has been largely lost due to the devaluing of spiritual and religious institutions in the country.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green
Earth Days, the new film that opens this weekend from acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone, is being promoted as a history of the environmental movement in the United States. But it's more of a road trip, really.
Mark Joseph | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
Every night, Chris Matthews raises race as the reason President Obama is encountering so much opposition. But he's wrong. And though he may not intend it, he's the one who is injecting race into these debates.
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Unless you were backing up Janis Joplin in a secret jam session, or at least at, you know, actually at Woodstock, please, shut up.
Dan Fleshler | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
It is time to evaluate the wisdom of retaining a blind, hopeful faith in the Obama Administration's Middle East policies, and of reflexively supporting whatever it wants us to support.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics