Isaac Hayes, American Hero
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.
Martin Luther King
Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland, on The Interview Show
Mark Bazer | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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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