When the president selected then-Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to serve as head of Department of Homeland Security, Arizonans were assured that nothing horrific would transpire during...
The state of Arizona’s new anti-immigration law shines a spotlight on the racism of large swaths of American society. It also gives President Obama a chance to take a politically smart and morally...
When Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union and Barack Obama's most frequent guest at the White House, announced last week that he was stepping down, it sent ripples...
April 19th marked the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Timothy McVeigh was spurred to destroy the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by what he deemed to be the mishandling of Waco and...
During Vietnam, we in the U.S. saw the war. We saw photographs come back that froze scenes of horror in front of our eyes. During current wars, though, we have television cameras and satellites and...
Though many of us did not notice, April 9, 2010 was a historic day for humankind. When the shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station, three women, Naoko Yamazaki, Stephanie...
From Twitter to “The View,” the story of Donna Simpson's attempt to become the fattest woman in the world has made its rounds. The Daily Mail reports that Simpson is 42 years old and is a...
Americans constantly worry about public education. There is a mantra that we keep repeating: “Our Schools Are Failing!” But have our schools, in fact, failed? And if so, who or what is really to...
As food consciousness hits Americans—and wealthy Global Northerners everywhere—it's not just cooking that has seen a resurgence. Farming is experiencing a new cachet that it hasn't seen in ages....
Iraq 2003. The “shock and awe” party is in full effect, tracer fire lights up the night sky and concussion blasts from “smart” bombs shake gilded masonry into the lap of the movie theatre....
