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Isaac Hayes, American Hero

Bob Ostertag | Posted 08.19.2008 | Entertainment


Bob Ostertag

Here's an idea for you Internet news hounds: take a break and honor the passing of Isaac Hayes by renting Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story.

Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland, on The Interview Show

Mark Bazer | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics


Mark Bazer

Here, in three parts, is a video interview I did with Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. I hope you enjoy.

Two Augusts, Two Dreams: Martin Luther King and Barack Obama

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 08.16.2008 | Politics


Ariel Gonzalez

It's easy to forget how hated MLK was. When he won the Nobel Peace Prize, many people viewed him as a troublemaking fool or a communist agent.

McCain: MLK and RFK Were Dumb Blondes

Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics


Marty Kaplan

I think I've finally figured out what those McCain ads about Paris and Britney -- and, yes, the Summer of Love -- are saying.

Turkey Hollow Almanac: The Power of Words

David Mixner | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics


David Mixner

As I recounted in my initial thoughts about the Obama Berlin speech, I recalled that Gandhi said we have to value our words as much as our actions. Obama understands that, and our history has shown it to be true.

Friday Talking Points [38] -- Whiners And Cheeseheads

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Welcome back to Friday Talking Points, after a one-week hiatus! While plenty has happened in the past two weeks which bears close and careful analysis...

Obama's Call to Service Is the Key to Electing Him President

Robert Creamer | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics


Robert Creamer

Fundamentally, Democrats lost the last presidential election because while we talked about policies and programs, the Republicans talked about right and wrong. Never again.

Friday Talking Points [36] -- End The Media's Pro-McCain Bias! Now!!

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media


Chris Weigant

McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.

Post-Tony Theater Recommendations

Ryan J. Davis | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment


Ryan J. Davis

All of America ('all' equals six million in this case) was glued to the Tony Awards Sunday, waiting with baited breath to see what show they haven't h...

Election 2008: The Race Election

Dan Treul | Posted 06.15.2008 | Home


Dan Treul

There is something culturally sick about defining such a critical election along racial lines alone. This election should not be a referendum on black and white. It should be a referendum on the Bush years.

1963 -- The Year of Hostility and Hope

Byron Williams | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics


Byron Williams

Given our current state, it is understandable that we would remember 1968 and Vietnam. But it was 1963 when we realized that hope and hostility lived, and continue to live, in close proximity.

Obama Assassination Exhibit May Be a Hoax, But Fears of Assassination are Real

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.12.2008 | Home


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Hoax, cheap stunt, crank, crackpot, racist, and sick, were the apt terms tossed at so-called artist Yazmany Arboleda for his grotesquely named near ...

The Greatest President We Never Had

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics


Norman MacAfee

Robert Kennedy believed that politics was an honorable profession, and that government could be used for good. His murder sent a message of hopelessness, that nothing was possible anymore.

Barack Obama, Bobby Kennedy's Historical Heir

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics


Jamie Stiehm

Kennedy was a dreamer and a social justice visionary. Kennedy lived and breathed the rough and raw world of politics and power, which Obama mastered in the tough training grounds of Chicago and Springfield.

Let's Hear It for Politics As Usual

Caryl Rivers | Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics


Caryl Rivers

I love Barack's his ideas about a new politics of hope -- I attended MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. But I worry that Obama is more Harvard law than Chicago street fighter.

Remembrances of Things to Come

Steven Weber | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics


Steven Weber

Robert Kennedy's political journey and his emotional complexity seemed to defy categorization in life, yet he was perhaps too easily glorified in death.

Friday Talking Points [34] -- General Election Preview

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

As the primary election season sinks slowly in the West (South Dakota and Montana, to be exact), we turn our eyes (finally!) to the general election c...

Graduates: End the War and Help Get America Back on Track

Rep. Charles Rangel | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics


Rep. Charles Rangel

You will be the leaders in making certain that never again in your lifetime would you allow this great country to enter into a war that is so unjust, so immoral, or to allow a Congress to allow a president to do that.

What's Worse? Clinton's Failure to Apologize for Iraq War Vote or Failure to Apologize to Obamas for Assassination Comment?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics


Miles Mogulescu

Where is the apology to America still traumatized by the assassinations of Martin, Malcolm, John and Bobby? To the African American community still traumatized by the fear that the same could happen to Barack?

Edwards Poverty Campaign Met With Media Blackout

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.15.2008 | Home


Peter Dreier

The Edwards endorsement of Obama made all the news. The Edwards plan to battle soaring levels of poverty in this country, Half in Ten, has made almost no news at all.

This is a Truly Historic Moment; Let's Savor It

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics


Robert S. McElvaine

As a historian, I am painfully aware of how overused the term "historic" is. But what we are witnessing right now, with Obama as the Democratic nominee, is the very definition of the word.

August 28th -- A Good Date For Historic Speeches

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

August 28th will be the final day of the Democratic National Convention. Unless Hillary Clinton soon acquires the ability to perform miracles, the nominee giving the acceptance speech is going to be Barack Obama.

40 Years Ago Today, The Police Tried to Kill Me At Columbia University

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics


Blake Fleetwood

The real legacy of the 1968 turmoil was the idea that young people and students had the obligation to challenge authority, to question assumptions... and could succeed.

Just. Doesn't. Get It

John Sweeney | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics


John Sweeney

If McCain is going to continue trying to gain political points by talking about working family issues, it's time for him to put his votes and policies where his rhetoric is.

Barack Obama's March 18, 2008 Speech on Race Relations

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union."

 Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a g...


 

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