Month: May 2012

Calling the president a drug dealer on television is not that much different from pursuing a black kid with your gun because he looks dangerous in his hoodie. Once you dehumanize people based on their appearance, you go down a...

There is something that every analysis piece of the president’s decision to embrace gay marriage has missed. They all wonder whether his decision will dampen enthusiasm among black voters, but they don’t ask why...

Professor Alan Wolfe has firmly planted himself on the left wing of American politics for his entire adult life.  However, as befits a Jewish atheist running a center for “religion and American public life” at...

Given the more immediate fiscal and economic challenges the US faces, I’m still not persuaded that fixing Social Security is among the top 10.  (I am pretty sure that controlling health care costs is at least 3 of the...

Right-wingers have responded to the revelations about Mitt Romney’s bullying high school ways in the only way they really can: by denying it has any relevance. Who could be so cruel as to judge a man by his worst behavior...