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...
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...
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,...
Let's talk about sex, shall we? Just with that line, I've opened up all sorts of doors. Talking about sex takes many shapes and forms, particularly in present-day America, where we have a cultural...
Tina Brown’s ploys for self-promotion are numerous, but her latest piece, along with a follow-up interview on CNN, takes the cake. Brown, former editor for noted U.S. magazines such as Vanity Fair,...
Philadelphia. The city of brotherly love. A northeastern city, 43.8% African-American, that voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. And my home for the past couple of years. It's the last place you...
“In my own circle of writers and rock fans...populism had another meaning: it derived from pop.” -Ellen Willis, Introduction to Beginning to See the Light To be a leftist in America in the days...
Sarah Palin quit the governor's office so that she could fight for Alaska. What? OK, no one really believes that. But no one really expected Palin to announce, on July 3rd, that she was stepping down...
