Month: March 2015

I hope that you don’t spend your time listening to right-wing radio. I know that I don’t spend my time that way, although I do sometimes indulge on the rare occasions that I take a road trip during the work week....

On Sunday the Boston Globe printed an opinion column from MoveOn’s Anna Galland in which she urged Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president: Our country will be better off if she does. She would be a strong candidate...

(One in a series of posts on George Fredrickson’s 2002 book, Racism: A Short History.) Centuries in the making, Western racism came to “a hideous fruition” in the 20th century: “Its two most persistent...

Yes, it’s true. Some people are afraid that too much “diversity” on our TV programming over the last year is hurting the chances of white actors to find work. No, really, they are. This has been a breakthrough...

Is anyone else really disappointed to see another 5-4 Supreme Court decision on a contentious issue? The conservatives on the Court just won’t relent on any front. They always want to send the message that they’re...