My lifelong confusion surrounding language and culture often surfaces without warning. In moments like these, I confront one of the most private shames I carried into adulthood: despite having a...
It's beginning to look like a possibility that Americans may actually see health care reform happen in this administration, and maybe even this year. Having lived through the abortive attempt in the...
CNN has aired the final part of its new four-hour documentary, Black in America II. Out of all the Black in America segments, this one was the most incoherent. It seemed as though the network was...
Wonder woman has nothing to do. Sat on her back porch with her underwear still on the outside and a beer in her hand, she knows: Metropolis is fine. The Riddler’s dead. All the vampires exploded...
In Spies: The Rise and Fall of The KGB in America, historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr teamed up with former KGB member and journalist Alexander Vassiliev to illustrate the phenomenon of...
Last year, CNN presented a four hour documentary by Soledad O’Brien entitled Black in America. The first part was called The Black Man and the second part was the Black Women and the Family. Much...
The previous installment of the Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) retrospective discusses "Killer's Kiss." You get the impression that Sterling Hayden’s two-time loser Johnny Clay never read much...
I have been a practising Christian all my life and a deacon and Bible teacher for many years. My faith is a source of strength and comfort to me, as religious beliefs are to hundreds of millions of...
Blogs allow those who have traditionally had no voice and very little social power to be heard. In this atmosphere, "mommy blogs" have become big business. Dooce is the most popular personal blog and...
Barack Obama nominated for his first opening on the Supreme Court Puerto Rican Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor. The appellate court judge has more judicial experience than anyone currently on the bench,...
