The controversy over President Obama’s school speech is mostly about race. And those parents are teaching their kids exactly the wrong thing.

The columnist's call for an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan represents an especially insidious strain of chicken-hawkery and brings the conservative thought process on our post-9/11 wars full circle.

Obama's green jobs czar has resigned due to controversy about his political past. But going forward, how far back, and for what type of offenses, will American politics punish public servants?

After weeks of attacks from conservatives, Obama's green jobs advisor resigned fom the administration saying he did not want to be a distraction: "I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past."

If everybody is mad at the president, then he must be doing all the right wrong things.

The real reason why health care reform has stalled is because too many people are getting rich.

Charity Hospital was where the poor people of New Orleans went until Katrina forced its closing. Now, as the debate rages about whether to reopen Charity or build a new hospital, those poor people continue to get the short end of the stick.

President Obama and three former presidents attended the funeral Mass for Ted Kennedy at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston Saturday. The President hailed Kennedy's "spirit of resilience and good humor."

Sen. Kennedy was a white liberal who believed in black power.

With its 2010 mayoral elections on the horizon, post-Katrina New Orleans is holding an open-casting call. Will an A-lister sacrifice a luxurious lifestyle to stay on-location for four challenging years? Or is this the role that only an undiscovered no-name can play?