Double Standard

Georgia-Russia Conflict: Moscow Challenges America's Global and Regional Authority

Omid Memarian | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

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Omid Memarian

One of the lessons the U.S. could learn from the conflict is that America is no longer the most effective nation when it comes to interfering, influencing and finally resolving conflicts among nations.

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If Wright Were White

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 04.30.2008 | Home

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Leonce Gaiter

In this election cycle, there was always going to be a Jeremiah Wright. In America, there are different standards. Black people are more quickly judged intemperate and arrogant and angry.

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Abstinence is the New Feminism (And Other Things I Learned at Harvard)

Shelby Knox | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

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Shelby Knox

The last thing anyone, male or female, needs on a college campus is a rancorous and harmful debate about the merits of sex or no sex.

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Ferraro Keeps Getting it Right: Obama Should Apologize to Her

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Let rival Clinton (or God forbid, hubby Bill) even breathe the R word about Obama and the screeches from the clinically obsessive Hate Hillary Clubbers are swift and loud.

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You Can't Say That on Television: Jane Fonda and the C-Word

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 02.17.2008 | Living

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Jessica Wakeman

I don't want the only people who are "allowed" to say "dirty" words about women to be the people who are trying to hurt us.

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Injustice in Black Leaders' Response to Thomas Case

Byron Williams | Posted 12.02.2007 | Politics

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Byron Williams

The Thomas affair smacks of a clear double standard among black leadership. Sure, some called for Thomas' dismissal, but not with the same gusto as with Imus.

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Deciding to Be Human

John Brady Kiesling | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics

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John Brady Kiesling

Most of us applaud the efforts of the UN to impose a universal code of behavior. But international law is not always compatible with our more Homeric instincts.

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Better Imus on the Air Than Off

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.11.2007 | Media

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Imus would be the permanent broadcast poster boy for what can happen to shock jocks that stray over the line of racial trash talking indecency.

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