From Nightmares to Dreams Come True
Long gone is the unique American social phenomenon that each new generation will "do better" than the last. Things are starting to feel more like "The Grapes of Wrath" than "The Great Gatsby."
Long gone is the unique American social phenomenon that each new generation will "do better" than the last. Things are starting to feel more like "The Grapes of Wrath" than "The Great Gatsby."
Lou Weisbach | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
There must be a place in the NIH where the discovery of knowledge is focused on preventing or curing the diseases of our loved ones.
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
I never thought as Martin Luther King Jr's former advisor and speechwriter that I would live long enough to ever publicly write or say these words.
Paula B. Mays | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
The suffering innocents in Iraq remain invisible. We barely know the names of the American soldiers who have died, but as to the innocent non-combatants in Iraq, we know even less.
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.
Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 02.05.2009 | Business
When I look at Rupert Murdoch or Barry Diller, I want to be like them -- just as I do when I see anybody else who owns a successful media company, male or female.
Nathan Schneider | Posted 02.05.2009 | World
Israel and its backers need to make the real sacrifices necessary to offer the Palestinian people a solution worthy of their dignity. It will not come cheap, but no cost is dearer than more war.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 01.31.2009 | World
Israel is occupying the West Bank (and effectively Gaza because they control the borders, the airspace, etc.). What are they going to do with it -- hold on to it forever?
Timothy Cooper | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics
With the election of 2008 demonstrating how far this country has progressed with issues such as sexism and racism, it should be interesting to see if America will respond any differently to a Commander-in-chief of color.
Don King | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
The world is watching American history in the making, live and in living color. We've taken an important step in the right direction by electing Barack Obama as President.
Lea Lane | Posted 01.04.2009 | Entertainment
Odetta Holmes sang at the 1963 March on Washington, and it was reported that she wanted to sing at Obama's inauguration. But she didn't quite make it; she died on Tuesday, at age 77.
Graham Bensinger | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
The day after the presidential election, I sat down with Jim Brown. Brown discussed a wide range of topics, including what electing the first African American president means to him.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
if there is to be any change, it is going to be brought about by us, "we the people," not the politicians. No president, no congressman and no judge can do what you can.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
Many people may see Malcolm X and Barack Obama as opposites of each other in the sphere of black political figure, but Malcolm's own family has come out publicly for Obama.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics
There is a very real danger of violence to Obama. That's the unfortunate price that elected officials, in this case a new president, who inspire hope must pay.
Nathaniel Frank | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
What does a gay, white liberal feel upon the election of the world's first African-American president at the moment America's biggest, bluest state votes to rip away my right to marry?
Suzette Standring | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
This new multi-cultural, interracial, eco-green, techno-savvy, globally-minded young generation has made history.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Obama did a much better job of reaching out to young, white evangelicals than Kerry did. It's therefore unsurprising that Obama employs the rhetoric of an earlier evangelical in his speeches.
Paul Raushenbush | Posted 12.07.2008 | Living
Obama's election does not wipe out the vicious racism of centuries, and Prop 8 shows that there is still work to be done confronting the discrimination of Gay and Lesbian people.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Obama's job will not be easy, but he has indeed demonstrated the kind of curiosity, intelligence, judgment, resolve and presence of mind, and the ability to inspire, that great leaders are made of.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Obama and McCain accomplished two very different objectives last night: Obama unified and inspired; McCain departed with grace. Here's what history will remember of the speeches of November 4, 2008.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Forget about the Bradley effect, Republican voter suppression tactics and October surprises. Obama won a clear and resounding victory last night.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
We must understand one more thing -- how successful President Obama will be in transforming America in a progressive direction will depend on us, as well as on him.
Marc Cooper | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home
Daly was drafted by the country's largest labor union, as part of its celebrity-centered "Guess Who's Knocking" campaign to directly involve high-profile entertainers in its get-out-the-vote efforts.
George Mitrovich | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be elected president and vice president of the United States. On Inauguration Day, January 20, 20...
Michael DeJong | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living