Author: Steven D

This is the third in my series, Race, America and Me. Part One is located here, and Part Two can be found here. * * * * * * * * * * * Danger, Will Robinson! All white people know who the dangerous other is in America, even if...

It’s four and the morning and a coughing spell woke me up. I clicked on Atrios only to learn this: Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and...

The Iraqi government, the Kurds and Turkey: BAGHDAD, April 11 (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sought to mollify Ankara on Wednesday after an Iraqi Kurdish leader warned neighbouring Turkey that any...

Yesterday, in Part One of this series, I described why I believe we need to open a new dialogue in this country on the issue of race. I also gave a brief history of how the concept of race was developed, and then refined and...

Female suicide bomber kills 16 in Diyala province, and 5 others died in bomb attacks in Baghdad. Four more US soldiers died. Rear Admiral Mark Fox admitted that, despite “substantial progress” (whatever that means),...