The ANC at 100
Its centenary is surely a cause for celebration and hope for all who cherish freedom, civil rights and democracy.
Recess appointments are welcome start to 2012
President Barack Obama sent a clear and welcome message this week when he made the recess appointments.
Sen. Kirk: Quit obstructing job creation, jobless benefit extension
Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., has carefully cultivated the image of a political moderate. It was that image that allowed him to get elected in 2010 in the first place.
David Brooks peddles snake oil on race, class, Santorum
"The Republican Party is the party of the white working class," David Brooks, the New York Times' resident conservative "intellectual," declared.
Ron Paul emerges as an opponent of liberty
While he claims to support personal liberty, many of his policy positions would do little to help the liberty of ethnic or sexual minorities.
The Kenyan roots of the Occupy movement
With the presidential election looming over 2012, we should take a cue from our Kenyan brothers and sisters. We need to take our analysis of the gross negligence of our financial institutions into the electoral arena.
The 2012 elections are critical to defeating the 1%
With the 2012 elections less than a year away, the entire right wing is amassing great sums of money in order to win. They want to take over the White House and the both houses of Congress.
Obama in Osawatomie
The President's speech in Osawatomie was the true "pivot" towards jobs and away from the austerity debates of last summer for which workers, occupy protesters and tens of millions more have been waiting.
Politics isn’t a morality play
In times like these some might ask: does a strategic focus on defeating right-wing extremism continue to make sense? I think so, and here's why.
Occupy Wall Street and the elections
One need not be a political scientist to see that there are forces arrayed on the right who are working full-time, using millions of corporate dollars to defeat President Obama and install an extremist in the White House.
