Just as the health care debate has served as a springboard for those who prey upon fear, Obama must do the same, but for a vastly different purpose: to speak about the nature of the discourse and plant a seed of peace.
Robert Fuller | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Calls for civility have not worked, either with the public or the partisan commentators who model disdain and contempt for their followers. Why is hate resonating with the American public?
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
With unemployment in the United States at a 26 year high of 9.8% and the UK not far behind, a sector of the economy in both nations is booming -- extremism.
Kiri Westby | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Last Friday I went to hear a keynote address from Iran's only Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi. I was blown away.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
All people of good will, no matter where they fall on the political spectrum, have a moral obligation to first and foremost decry the continuing hatred, violence and harassment that the gay community faces.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Time to dust off my Union Theological Seminary creds and weigh in on prayer.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
They say the best offense is a good defense. Our only real defense against right wing insanity is to put them on the defense and keep them there.
Lea Lane | Posted 11.14.2009 | Comedy
The hate flu seems to thrive in the southern United States, with pockets found throughout the country, especially in rural areas.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
Assault rifles haven't replaced placards yet outside presidential townhalls on healthcare reform, but their emergence serves as another disturbing symbol of where political discourse is heading.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
Yale professor, John Dovidio, does not feel the ongoing protests, name calling and Hitler labels by white protesters are hate, but a fight by whites struggling to defend and maintain their position and status.
Mike Lux | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
With all of this hateful and violent rhetoric going on, I haven't seen one Republican leader asking for people to cool their rhetoric, or heard them condemn any of these tactics.
Eric Alterman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Media
Brooks Jackson: "As a former CNN reporter, I believe this episode is an embarrassment to CNN... They have an anchor on there saying one thing and their reporters saying quite another."
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
In Glenn Beck's mind it doesn't add up. How can it be that people who are treated badly are not filled with hate?
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
Whether he likes it or not, Gates stands as America's new 21st Century Poster Child for "racial profiling."
Lauri Lyons | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York
The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.
Marc Hershon | Posted 07.21.2009 | Business
Hating, just like everything else in life, can be a healthy habit as long as it's done in moderation.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics
President Obama is the first president in my memory to have the FDR problem. That problem in a word is hate. The reason is the same.
Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Palpable demographic shifts have sparked considerable terror among a cadre of white Americans -- a fear that whites will be politically and culturally moribund in their "own" land.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
Republican leaders never kill anyone themselves, and they always "deplore" violence. But it is their language, anti-American speech and hate that feeds these individuals.
Deborah Hobson | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
I know this motley crew of far right fantasists could never command support among the vast majority of right-thinking Britons.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
I was in bed with a group of people who were profoundly anti-American. They were professional haters; they "loved" an America that didn't exist.
Donna Fish | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living
I had to write this in honor of Mother's Day. I lift a glass and salute all of you mothers out there who can be real and down with your intense negat...
Jeff Norman | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
Sociopaths tend to be unstable in more than one way. Can we really trust prosecutors, judges and juries to know which of a perpetrator's demons caused a dirty deed to be done?
Reproductive Justice | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
Any gay student at Grandfield High School has been taught a dubious lesson. They have learned they better keep quiet until they are old enough to leave town.
Robert Ellis Gordon | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics