We ought to demand more from Obama than the tired trope that we can only achieve peace by waging war. This means we need to challenge ourselves.
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
The dream of Obama is now dead. He has turned out to be, as I had begun to fear a few months back, really just like the others that came before him.
Matt Farmer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
CPS CEO Ron Huberman knows there is very little racial or economic diversity in our public schools. There is also very little Huberman and his team can do about that.
Russell Bishop | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
It takes great courage to face adversity, imagine a better outcome, and then get off your butt and do something about it.
Irene Monroe | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's religious rhetoric against LGBTQ citizens chokes progress, hinders equality, and allows religion-based bigotry to flourish.
Michael Kubin | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy
What will President Obama say in his Nobel Peace Prize lecture? Eleven possible quibbles, questions and quotations: you decide.
William Bradley | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment
Listening to Martin Luther King on the murder of four girls in a Birmingham church, Betty opines that maybe this civil rights thing is premature. But Betty should know that a dream deferred can dry up like a raisin in sun.
2morrowknight | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
In ten months under Obama, America's image in the world is decidedly better than it was under the previous president.
Russell Simmons | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
I'm really afraid that our beloved country, America, is standing on its last wobbly legs. I'm worried that the karmic effects of our negative actions will finally come home to roost.
Michael Moore | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
Obama is moving too slow for most of us -- but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around.
Chris Campbell | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
I find it maddening how quickly the wolves came out. Similar to any policy move that will actually benefit Americans and our standing in the world, the right-wing goes ballistic.
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
The impact of Obama's election stretches far beyond even what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the "fierce urgency of now." It goes beyond race and beyond policy issues.
Bruce Feiler | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
The themes of Moses' life -- social mobility, standing up to authority, balancing freedom and law, dreaming of a promised land -- would make any short list of America's defining traits.
Mike Elk | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Very few of us have made any attempt to really reach out to the teabaggers on the issues that we share with them. We could lock arms with them and form a powerful alliance; but instead we attack each other.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books
Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.
Eric Stoner | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
Rather than encouraging grassroots protest to help push the public debate and further a progressive legislative agenda as Roosevelt did, Obama is unfortunately publicly trying to quash pressure from the left.
Reyne Haines | Posted 11.29.2009 | Style
The highlight of the 20th Century Decorative Arts Sale at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas, is a rocking chair, once owned by Martin Luther King.
David A. Love | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?
Levi Novey | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
I suspect those who only watch the first few episodes will be teetering on the edge of boredom. Those who stay around longer, or just cherry-pick an episode to watch among the later ones will end up much more excited and satisfied.
Hermene Hartman | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
There is no comfortable time to discuss America's racial issues. There is no right time. There will always be something else more pressing. America needs to look its racism in the mirror.
Trish Kinney | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
Some people just seem called to help us understand ourselves, no matter what the cost, whether they be musicians or that rare politician or leader who makes us believe in something -- in anything.
Chris Campbell | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
When I saw the "Baucus Bill" today, I finally couldn't take it anymore. I could no longer fight for a party that I barely even recognized.
Jim Selman | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media
They are a few thousand hard-core individuals intent on destroying possibility and undermining the man that a majority of Americans elected.
Christian Avard | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Street goes beyond the Obama phenomenon and investigates who Obama is and what he's all about in Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics.
William Bradley | Posted 11.14.2009 | Entertainment
Five major plot developments in this episode -- named for the culmination of Betty Draper's pregnancy -- drive the action forward as we enter the middle of the season.
Scott Kurashige | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics