Terror Fears Scarier Than Guantanamo Bay Suspects in the Heartland
I'm less scared of the possibility of an armed Islamic radical coming into my life than I am about the everyday bigots.
I'm less scared of the possibility of an armed Islamic radical coming into my life than I am about the everyday bigots.
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The headline on the new Rasmussen poll is this: "60% Want Fort Hood Shooting Investigated as Terrorist Act." But the more interesting news, buried in...
Joyce McFadden | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
While reading Barbara Berg's Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining our Future, I felt energized and eager to be a part of this third wave of feminism.
Sarah Schmelling | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media
Just a few months after we've splattered the media with pieces about how great something is, we turn around and report on how sick of it everyone has become.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Obama spoke from the heart and said what needed to be said about the thorny issue of racial profiling. No apology needed for that. He just said it in the wrong case and at the wrong time.
Sandy Maisel | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
For the state to sanction marriage between males and females, but to deny the same to gay couples violates our Constitution. More than that, it violates the basic essence of who we are as a people.
Ray Hanania | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
Obama's election as president has changed America and can also make it a far better nation, one that truly embraces the ideals that motivated our founding fathers.
Mark Potok | Posted 12.08.2008 | Home
After 250 years of slavery, a century of Jim Crow laws, and a legacy of racial terror that includes the lynching of thousands of African Americans, Am...
Linda Bergthold | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics
In the past few days, Clinton supporters of various stripes have refused to donate to the Obama campaign (while they whine about Obama supporters not wanting to help retire the Clinton debt).
Jamie Frevele | Posted 06.03.2008 | Entertainment
What made the Bones season finale so traumatizing is how the departure of a beloved regular character was executed. There was nothing leading up to it, and it was completely unfair.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago