• Death in New Haven

    Annie Le was murdered at Yale University. Yet as always, there is something unsettling about the selective attention our nation pays when such tragedies strike. This is not a new thought, but a high-profile homicide provides a sadly important reminder.
    Annie Le's Death Shows Selective Attention to Pretty Girl Murders
  • Selling White Rage

    Want to understand rightwing media's increasing madness? Follow the money.
    Rightwing Radio's Rage Competition is Fueled by Shrinking Ad Market
  • Dining Without the Dictator

    Barack Obama's first presidential trip to Sub-Saharan Africa will focus on the good guys—but we couldn't resist calling out the bad. Your guide to the Ghana trip, and the company Obama should be keeping abroad.

    GALLERY: African Rogues and Royalty
    Barack Obama Visits Ghana; Check the African Leaders Who Weren't Invited to Dinner
  • What Iran Can Learn from the Civil Rights Movement

    I was struck when, in commenting on the unrest in Iran, Barack Obama invoked Martin Luther King, repeating the borrowed line that King made famous: “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”  Because already, as I watched the demonstrations in Iran, my mind took me back to the days of King and the students of about the same age as many of those in the streets in Tehran.
    Charlayne Hunter-Gault Compares Civil Rights Movement to Iranian Revolution
  • POTUS to Hit (Maybe Racist, Maybe Backward) World Cup

    President Obama has accepted an invitation to the opening ceremony of the first World Cup to be held on the African Continent, according to the head of FIFA, the world soccer federation....
    FIFA says President Barack Obama Will Attend the 2010 World Cup in South Africa
  • Raising the Child of Your Rapist

    The 1994 massacre in Rwanda remains unimaginable 15 years later. And those 100 days of violence continue to echo through time, with equally unimaginable ramifications. Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik has documented one of them in a terribly affecting project on the mother-daughter relationships that grew up out of systemic rape....
    A Photo Essay of Rwandan Women Who Are Raising the Children of Rape
  • Is the Holocaust Museum Shooter One of Many?

    The shooting today in Washington at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum turned from terror to murder when 39-year-old security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, one of the two individuals shot this afternoon, died at a local hospital. Details from the scene are still unclear, but the elderly man who opened fire at the crowded memorial has been identified as white supremacist James Von Brunn, and taken into police custody at George Washington University Hospital.
    Holocaust Museum Shooter James Von Brunn May be Just the Beginning of Terror in Obama's America
  • Obama Speaks on Murder of Kansas Abortion Doctor

    The murder of Dr. George Tiller—an abortion rights advocate who practiced medicine and performed abortions in Kansas—-as he attended church services Sunday morning, has prompted this statement from President Barack Obama...
    White House Reacts to Murder of Abortion Provider Dr. George Tiller
  • Shots Fired in Chicago

    Can Chicago make its streets safe enough for my son to visit his grandmother?
    Ending the Ongoing Violence in Chicago
  • Guns Kill, But Poverty’s the Trigger

    The youth violence consuming Chicago is an opportunity for us to start talking about how we save poor communities.
    Weekend Shootings in Chicago
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