Political
The Great Tax Con Job
Republicans are using the T-word - taxes - to attack the Obama healthcare program. It's a strategy based in a lie.
Responsible Fatherhood
In many ways, I came to understand the importance of fatherhood through its absence—both in my life and in the lives of others...
The Terrible Price of Being Tagged a Reverse Racist
Obama’s election did not change the racial power dynamic in America.... Sotomayor and any minority perceived to be a threat to corporate and political white male dominance will be branded a reverse racist. This is not new.
Everyone Should See "Torturing Democracy"
If we want to know what torture is, and what it does to human beings, we have to look at it squarely, without flinching. That's just what a powerful and important film, seen by far too few Americans, does.
Michelle Obama, Mom-in-Chief
Many progressive feminists were distressed with Michelle's assertion of motherhood as her primary role. They hoped she would seek a more aggressive policy agenda.
Justice Department Urges Equalizing Drug Sentences
Newly appointed Criminal Division chief Lanny A. Breuer told a Senate Judiciary Committee panel this morning that the Obama administration would support bills to equalize punishment for offenders accused of possessing the drug in either form, fulfilling one of the president's campaign pledges.
