WASHINGTON — An 89-year-old white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was ordered to remain ...
Karen Finney | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
The incident in Cambridge comes on the heels of a number of incidents over the past several months that reminded us of the unfinished business race and prejudice in our country.
Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 08.06.2009 | Media
Buchanan must be held publicly accountable for facilitating the dissemination of toxic hate speech that, as the Holocaust Museum shooting reminds us, can have tragic consequences.
Rachel Laser | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
An overwhelmingly popular President and a rising chorus of Americans are imploring policymakers to replace the culture wars with culture discussions. In this new moment, engaging in partisan warfare seems simply passé.
Paul Helmke | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics
Please take a moment this weekend to read Bob Herbert's column published today in the New York Times. His message is long overdue: Even with the mur...
Robert Koehler | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Wanna hear a good Holocaust joke? Or a rib-tickler about lynching? How about starving Ethiopians? You'll bust a gut. I spent an eerie couple of hours...
Associated Press | GILLIAN GAYNAIR | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
WHITE PLAINS, Md. (AP) -- After retiring from a 27-year career as a D.C. police officer, Harry Weeks thought working security at the U.S. Holocaust Me...
Chip Berlet | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Since the inauguration of Barack Obama there have been nine murders by men and women who have intersected with ideologies of White Supremacy, xenophobia, and antisemitism.
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media
The world is changing way too fast. A year ago we thought Hillary Clinton might get elected. Television pundits repeatedly asked us if we were ready...
Terry Krepel | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media
If Fox News is guilty in hastening the death of Tiller, Farah and WorldNetDaily also are. Too bad WND Joseph Farah lacks the guts to honestly address the subject.
Sally Kohn | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
It's time we confront the fact that behind violently anti-immigrant and supremacist rhetoric is a real urge and a real encouragement for actual violence.
John Milewski | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media
Attacking Sean Hannity while ignoring management and ownership is the media equivalent of blaming the grunts at Abu Ghraib while ignoring the generals at the Pentagon.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A white supremacist accused of fatally shooting a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is in no condition to appear...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 07.14.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — An elderly man enters a crowded museum carrying a rifle and begins shooting. A young man in Arkansas pulls the trigger outside a mi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
Just so everyone knows: The American Jewish Committee's Washington DC chapter has established a memorial fund for Stephen Tyrone Johns, who was killed...
ABC News | MICHAEL S. JAMES, PIERRE THOMAS, JACK DATE and THERESA COOK | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
A son of the 88-year-old white supremacist who allegedly started a shootout at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is slamming his father's "cowardice"...
Progress Illinois | Josh Kalven | Posted 07.13.2009 | Chicago
Mancow went on to assert that, because of his connection to Wright, Obama is an "anti-Semite" who was "popping champagne" following the June 10 shooti...
Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
This is unbelievable. In last night's "NBC Nightly News," Pete Williams had a segment on the Holocaust Museum shooter, James von Brunn, and they prese...
Rob Warmowski | Posted 07.13.2009 | Home
The dissatisfaction of disenfranchised Americans has often taken the form of grandiose paranoia, but that reliable pastime seems to have reached unpre...
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
I am further struck that this piece would be the one to draw personalized reactions. I've authored other things I would expect to be more offensive or controversial.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
"The entire time I worked there, we always expected something terrible to happen. I was very lucky it didn't while I was there -- but it wasn't for lack of trying."
AP | GILLIAN GAYNAIR | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Liz Johnson showed up Friday to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with 12 Girl Scouts in tow. None of them was alive when the Holo...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media
Nielsen ratings have just come in for Wednesday's breaking news event the shooting at the Holocaust Museum in Washington and Fox News won the event by...
Russell Simmons | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
Let yesterday's attack be a wake-up call: racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are alive and well in America. But like every tragedy, there is always a lesson to be learned: we must change ourselves.
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
I don't mean to compare von Bunn, who ranted "It's time to kill all the Jews," to Jeremiah Wright, who has done some good things in his career and has supporters whom I consider to be reasonable people.
AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics