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...
Last week, the New Orleans Saints, long NFL football's worst team, won the Super Bowl. A city cheered, and people from around the country whose teams were knocked out earlier in the season joined...
On February 13th, Kevin Smith was asked to vacate his seat on a Southwest airlines flight, on account of being "too fat" to fly. Smith is a very successful director, and when he decided to use...
When it was announced in 2007 by George W. Bush and Felipe Calderón, the Mérida Initiative was to change the way the US and Mexico approached the war on drugs. With the transfer of almost $1.5...
With the Vancouver Games starting today and it also being Black History month, I have pondered why we haven't had as many excellent African-American winter Olympians as we consistently produce for...
“Big Love,” which airs Sunday nights on HBO, is the story of a family trying to follow The Principle (i.e fundamentalist Mormon beliefs) in modern-day Utah. Because "Big Love" centers on a...
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,...
No one wants "unpleasantness" in his or her backyard. For nearly as long as Europeans have lived in the Americas, the wealthy have tried to separate themselves from industry, people, and environments...