Is This the End of Democracy?
Is there still time to recover and restore American Democracy to its bare essentials -- a government "of the people, by the people and for the people"? I don't know. Today we are on the brink.
Is there still time to recover and restore American Democracy to its bare essentials -- a government "of the people, by the people and for the people"? I don't know. Today we are on the brink.
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media
Critical and constructive analysis of President Obama's policies is certainly more useful than our Black Media's continued uncritical celebration of our new president.
Joel Berg | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
Had America ever chosen to do so, it could have wiped out domestic poverty and hunger far more rapidly than it could have achieved King's goals of racial equality or world peace.
Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
As a fellow fighter who stood with Dr. King in the last moments before his death, I feel blessed to know that what will happen the night of Aug. 28, 2008, would make him very proud.
Huffington Post | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics
The BBC reports: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 40 years ago on 4 April 1968. A year later, James Ear...
Janet Kinosian | Posted 06.23.2009 | Living
The family of Martin Luther King has survived a great deal since the following 2004 interview took place in Atlanta. Coretta King had moved from her l...
The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) presidential campaign is raising contributions at the rate of $1 million a day so far this year, campaign manager David P...
Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Here's the cover for this week's issue of The Weekly Standard, excitingly available on newsstands now. Here, once again, we encounter the renowned ju...
Election Central | Greg Sargent | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Tears are now officially an issue in Campaign 2008. Obama's national campaign co-chair, Jesse Jackson, Jr., just went on MSNBC and appeared to qu...
Political Radar | Kate Snow and Jennifer Parker | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The woman whose empathetic question -- "how do you do it?" -- sparked uncharacteristic emotion Monday from Sen. Hillary Clinton ended up voting for Se...
Political Wire | Stuart Rothenberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
While some will suggest that Sen. Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire victory can be traced to her emotional comments shortly before the primary, and othe...
New York Sun | PETER KIEFER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
It seemed next to impossible just a few days ago: the idea of Senator Obama competing against -- much less beating -- Senator Clinton on her home turf...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
At the end of a dusty, dirt road lined with mango and mimosa trees, Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives sat outside on plastic chairs surrounded by chicke...
NYT's The Caucus | Sara Wheaton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
As they barnstorm through New Hampshire, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband are often introduced by supporters who once backed another can...
Jim Selman | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics