Edward Kennedy

It started with a phone call.

In the 1960 campaign, when Martin Luther King was jailed for protesting segregation, Jack Kennedy picked up the phone and reached out to Coretta Scott King.

Martin Luther King, Sr., a lifelong Republican (as many African Americans were at the time) was so...

As a journalist I have always practiced a form of history from below. My career coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the continuing break-up of the old World Order (the New World Order is still not in place). I preferred to report from the street rather...

After months of Republican obstruction, the Senate will finally vote this afternoon on a provision that would end CIA torture once and for all. It is long past time that we apply the Army Field Manual's standards to all interrogations, leaving the Bush administration no doubt that torture is always...

There is something deeply moving about this weekend's news that Caroline Kennedy had endorsed Sen. Obama and that Sen. Edward Kennedy would be endorsing him later today.

After all these years and all the tragedy and all the scandal, the Kennedy's have found their heir and he is an...

Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy co-sponsored the No Child Left Behind legislation, which passed in January 2002 with overwhelming bipartisan support. Almost immediately after the law was enacted, educators, families, and lawmakers across the country experienced an extreme case of buyer's remorse.

President Bush promised a world of funding for...

"Robert F. Kennedy was a man...

Gloria Steinem has an op-ed in today's New York Times, explaining why a female version of Barack Obama would never make it in the eyes of the American public.

But Steinem, a Clinton supporter, makes a big slip that the Times failed to catch.

What worries me is that...

Yesterday turned out to be a fantastic day. So many times we've watched as our so-called leaders have done anything but lead. We've been left in shock wondering how they can still be cowed by a a pathetic excuse for a man who has a 24% approval rating...

Robert F. Kennedy would have turned 82-years-old today. Had he lived these many years since 1968 he would have seen vast changes in our nation's politics and history. One can only imagine what he might think about our current state of affairs. The following is the conclusion of my new...

The California Democratic Party killed without a vote the resolution to censure Senator Feinstein Saturday night in a crowded committee room, just a stone's throw from Disneyland. The destiny of the censure resolution was clear from the outset. Because the resolution had been submitted within 10 days of the...

OK, enough double-talk and obfuscations from the Republicans. Let's get it out in the open: who believes the United States should never use torture, and who does not?

No more statements like the typical Republican response, "We won't comment on specific procedures we may or may not do." Let's...