Month: May 2010

When Louis Gates got arrested for breaking into his own house, president Obama deemed it worthy of a teachable moment on race. Surely a catastrophic, still-uncontrolled oil spill that threatens an entire ocean should be worthy...

…Rand Paul, winner of the Kentucky Republican Senate Primary. In an interview last night, Paul told Maddow that he agrees with most parts of the Civil Rights Act, except for one (Title II), that made it a crime for private...

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Earlier this week, we highlighted Nicholas Kristof’s OP-ED in the New York Times about Gabon, a country in West-Central Africa where the rights of...

Matt Bai has an interesting take on Tuesday’s elections and what they mean for the national parties. His number one take-away is that the elections demonstrated that Obama’s insurgent campaign was no fluke. The...

Never let it be said that the big municipal bond ratings agencies like, say Moody’s Investor’s Services, have a heart, because they don’t. While the 1000 year flood of Nashville by the Cumberland River has...