Politics in the U.S. has reached a level of toxicity that those of us who worked the campaign trail during the 2008 elections couldn't have imagined. Foolishly, perhaps, my friends and I on the Obama...
It's one of my most deeply held beliefs: nothing has undermined the left more since the fall of the Soviet Union than the inability to coalesce around an ideological structure to help us fight global...
Helena Andrews’ Bitch is the New Black has been optioned as a movie. Which it feels more like to me in any case, in so much that a movie can be satisfying with little tidbits of revelation, music...
It was one of Barney Frank’s better bitchier moments. A few months ago, Frank unleashed hell on a woman at a town hall meeting after she asked him a “question” about President Obama’s...
I had a sort of vacation recently, a week or so out of the office in which I tried mightily not to do any work. I sat in coffee shops across Brooklyn, read books, scribbled notes, spilled my guts on...
Thursday afternoon, for a brief second, it seemed like there was to be yet another disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Five months after the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 people and causing the...
I’ve explored the state of activism in the United States for several columns now. Today, I want to look at one of the most successful social movements of recent decades: the conservative movement....
Saturday, August 28, 2010 was an extraordinary day here in the United States. The date marked the 55th commemoration of the lynching death of Emmitt Till. It also was the 47th anniversary of Martin...
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...
