US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized th...
Robert Koehler | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
Nobody opines sagely anymore that the races will never get along, calmly ladling conventional certainties over the earnest idealism of civil-rights ac...
Danny Schechter | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business
Where's the outcry when you learn that more money has been spent to contain this crisis than was used in all of World War 11?
Chris Rodda | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
Yes, folks... there is a statue on display in the U.S. Capitol honoring a white supremacist -- North Carolina Governor Charles Brantley Aycock
Aemilia Scott | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green
What should Washington do when the Motor City begs for oil? The question, it seems, is not "to bail out or not to bail out." The question is how to bailout.
Timothy Cooper | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
On November 5th, I examined the red, weary eyes of my fellow taxpayers, which showed the residue of a sleepless night spent checking every news channel to see if it was really true.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
It's over. The long primary season and the fight for the presidency are finished. Everything crystallized on the night of November 4th when Barack O...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Why did Obama risk following a strategy that had failed so often in recent campaigns? Obama saw something in the zeitgeist.
Craig Silverman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media
Calling it too early is nothing new. In the 1876 race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden, many papers mistakenly gave the victory to Tilden.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago
Studs Terkel died on Friday in Chicago at the age of 96. He was too young. But then, whenever he ended up dying, he'd be too young.
Sanford Levinson | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
It would be wonderful if our current willingness to raise basic questions about our broken regulatory system extended to questioning the very heart of that system, the Constitution.
Billy Kimball | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
It's not unreasonable to imagine that those of you with long enough lifetimes may eventually look back on this election and decide that it wasn't really the third most important -- more like the eighth.
Thom Hartmann | Posted 10.27.2008 | Business
Create an agency to fund the bailout, loan that agency the money from the treasury, and then have that agency tax Wall Street to pay us (the Treasury) back.
Dave Zirin | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media
So much discussion of sports, both its past and present, is about sanding off, beautifying, or simply obliterating anything that might be seen as political.
Toby Barlow | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
This is not an election about policy or vision, it's not about climate change, economic disparity, or war, no, clearly it's about what spiritual journey a child takes between the ages of 6 and 10.
Kate Kelly | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
It is interesting to note that Denver has hosted the Democrats one time previously -- exactly 100 years ago, in July of 1908.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
Here's the thing - people are going to vote against Obama because he's black. This is the country we live in. And I know, he's only half black, yadda...
John Fund | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
Alvin Felzenberg wants to restart the conversation about what we want in a leader. It is a good time to ponder such things.
Jennifer Nix | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living
I once again see the potential and power of literature, and hope to tell new and necessary stories. As activists, we must not lose sight of art. Here are some questions I posed to Aleksandar Hemon.
Danielle Crittenden | Posted 08.02.2008 | Living
I went over and examined a rectangular pile of bricks. A hole above it indicated previous owners had eventually installed some sort of coal or wood-burning oven in front of it. Renovating. Just like us.
Allan Lichtman | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
Diehard defenders of the Bush administration do not wish to enter into in a serious conversation about America's conservative political tradition, but rather are engaged in sweeping self-denial.
Roberto Lovato | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
"Recreate 68" sounds more like something more appropriate for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunion concert than for a movement of our troubled times.
Politico | DAVID PAUL KUHN | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
One week into the general election, the polls show a dead heat. But many presidential scholars doubt that John McCain stands much of a chance, if any....
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
The Republicans are going to look as out of touch a few years from now as did the isolationists and "America First" folks after World War II.
Shahid Buttar | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
But even though racial inequities persist, there is no doubt that the first black President will be a milestone, a watershed seemingly unthinkable before Obama's meteoric candidacy.
Yahoo! News | Thu Nov 20, 2:24 Pm ET | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics