Women Matter
This was a heroic week for women worldwide.
It is striking that Obama's aides, who helped win the election by harnessing new media, believed they could just spin away from their online interlocutors. The move backfired immediately.
This was a heroic week for women worldwide.
The release of yet another tape from Osama Bin Laden Wednesday serves as a reminder of the many leftover issues Barack Obama will inherit from the Bush administration.
Obama has yet to sit down with members of the real progressive media who have meaningful ties to the social movements that helped put him in office.
To Republicans, everything for George W. Bush begins on 9/12. It's really the most glaring insult of Bush's rehabilitation tour.
If Joe the Plumber had his moment of fame allegedly representing the average working guy, Lily Ledbetter is going to go down in the history books as the woman who changed the lives of working women.
When did the press come to think their job was to reinforce the fake images and storylines of politicians rather than to challenge them?
During a 2005 speech, Pastor Rick Warren asked his followers to be as committed to Jesus as the young Nazi men and women were to Adolf Hitler.
Let us remember Martin Luther King, Jr. not only as a champion of racial equality and economic justice, but also as an icon of anti-war and pro-peace sensibilities.
The problems we face in food safety are familiar when viewing the unfolding financial crisis. We see cuts in agency budgets, weakening of regulations, and the fox being put in charge of the henhouse.
Why isn't the Obama team waiting until it has been able to "reappraise" the war effort and figure out what, if anything, would actually work before doubling the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan?
Ever since Bush launched a crusade to democratize parts of the world by force, sometimes with sanctions and sometimes guns, I have struggled with the question of how to get "tranformational diplomacy" right.
As we free ourselves from the darkness of these last 8 years, I'm hoping for many Emerald City moments, where the new president finally speaks the truth and helps us remember we're out of the woods, we're out of the dark.
