I've written so often that New Orleans is like a lost love I can't bear to see again that it's become a cliche, party of one. I haven't been back since 2002, you see, and this year once again I...
The Tea Party movement on the Right in the United States has gathered a lot of press over the past year or so, a populist protest against the Obama administration. Yet, at its core, it conceals its...
In the wake of enormous tragedy, it is left to each of us to analyze the coverage of stories that startle even the most hardened of media consumers. Shaquan Duley, 29, is a South Carolina resident...
April 2000, Knoxville, Tennessee I was working a series of activist groups in this place and time. We planned a labor teach-in, which included speakers such as Richard Trumka, now AFL-CIO president....
Last week, an article in Slate entitled "How Black People Use Twitter: The latest research on race and microblogging" caused a bit of a stir and some moments of sheer hilarity on Twitter and in the...
I love the way BBC world news service segues from one story to another - from the misery of floods in Pakistan it effortlessly moves to jellyfish attacks on Spanish beaches. The consistent gravity of...
The internet recently went into an all-out furor over a segment of Dr. Laura Schlessinger's radio program, in which she used the N word repeatedly, while telling a Black woman who had called for...
Those terrorists are at it again. This time bigger, better, and ultimately deadlier. They are building a mosque on the ashen remains of the World Trade Center, giving a giant middle finger to...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he's open to requiring parents to prove their citizenship in the birth room (a logistical nightmare for hospitals), in order to prevent illegal immigrants...
My last article for Global Comment explored how we have lost our common architecture of activism that created and guided mass movements of the past. I argued that the individualistic modern world...
