April 19th marked the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Timothy McVeigh was spurred to destroy the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by what he deemed to be the mishandling of Waco and...
The most disturbing thing about reading Rick Perlstein's Nixonland is how little has changed. Even the names of the players themselves--some are still around, like Charlie Rangel, Donald Rumsfeld,...
Ted Kennedy wasn't there to see it. Instead, it was Democrats' loss of his seat that sent the Senate's health care bill through the House of Representatives mostly unchanged yesterday, causing, among...
Americans constantly worry about public education. There is a mantra that we keep repeating: “Our Schools Are Failing!” But have our schools, in fact, failed? And if so, who or what is really to...
We have a tendency to refer to members of the African Diaspora as a community, despite the fact that it is filled with people that have wildly different perspectives and experiences. Race supposedly...
I am deeply concerned for the future of American democracy. The Senate’s failure to function threatens the nation’s long democratic history. The government’s system of checks and balances...
I skipped the State of the Union. I've been fed up with Obama speeches for a bit—strange, considering he's the best political speaker of my lifetime, certainly. But I just couldn't take another...
The future of journalism: it's the subject of books, panel discussions, and countless blog posts and news articles, most of which revolve around the ways we can fund media after the shift to the Web....
Listening to President Obama’s State of the Union address and the ensuing response by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, I was struck by the near absence of substantive policy differences. It seems...
In my recent piece on activism as labor, I briefly touched on the connections between art and street activism, and promised to get back to that soon. I do think that in a discussion of art as labor,...