Politics
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#NeverTrump Is Losing the War Against America’s True Face
When I was young and naive, I loved a man so hard that his flaws disappeared when he smiled. Human nature assured me that he wasn’t perfect, but damn it, you couldn’t tell me he wasn’t one of the greatest men in the world. To my surprise, not everyone shared this opinion of him. When…
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What’s the Sound of 2 Campaigns Flopping? Kasich and Cruz Team Up to Stop Trump
Not all collaborations are created equal. When Run-DMC and Aerosmith came together to make “Walk This Way” in 1984, it transformed rap and rock worlds for the better. When Jay Z and R. Kelly started their Best of Both Worlds tour in 2004, it seemed like a good idea at the time, even if it…
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Candidate for Pa. Attorney General Uses Footage of Black Misery to Win Votes
You have to give them credit. After some initial stumbling last summer, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have upped their pandering game for black votes to epic levels. While secret stashes of hot sauce in the purse may seem over-the-top, black voters have come to expect white Democrats to do a certain amount of catering…
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The Politics of Prince
The world is still in shock at the passing of Prince, one of the greatest musical artists in American history. Prince was an entertainer, an icon (at one point a symbol), but even more importantly, he was an explicitly political artist in how he presented himself, his music and his quest for creative independence. While…
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Affordable Care Act Remains a Defining Moment in Obama’s Presidency
So many presidents tried it. From Harry S. Truman to Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton. Some say as many as seven presidents attempted to pass some form of national health care with few results, often stymied by the notion that social welfare should be left up to the states. But Barack Obama, in his first…
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Bye, Felicia: A Sliding Scale of Who Should Drop Out After NY Primary
The New York presidential primary was the return of the inevitable. For weeks the popular press narrative was that the races for the party nominations were getting close. Ted Cruz was mathematically gaining on Donald Trump on the Republican side, and Bernie Sanders was closing the gap with Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side. However,…
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No, Hillary Clinton Is Not Pandering When She Says She Carries Hot Sauce in Her Bag
Hillary Clinton has been involved in a number of snafus over the course of the election cycle. Being confronted about her use of the term “superpredators.” An ill-fated dab. Somehow putting Rosa Parks on the back of her ever shifting “H” logo. Hiding her forearm tattoo sleeves under a collection of Steve Harvey pour femme…
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Supreme Court Battle Over Obama’s Immigration Plan Leaves Black Immigrants Anxious
Valerie Gabriel, a Liberian who’s been in the U.S. since 1991, was not among the throngs of people dancing and singing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., Monday. She couldn’t join in the demonstrations in favor of President Barack Obama’s plan to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and provide…
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‘You’re Fired’: Black Apprentices Urge Voters to Dump Trump
If there is any way to mathematically stop Donald Trump from having the most delegates at the Republican convention, it pretty much has to happen in New York. If the real estate mogul/reality-TV star/erstwhile Republican manages to get over 50 percent of the vote in every New York district, he’ll score almost 80 of the…
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Bernie Sanders Has Lofty Goals, but Can He Execute Them?
What Sen. Bernie Sanders lacks in substance, he makes up for in being personable. Let me explain. The Vermont senator’s political ambitions are idealistic and radical. He has grandiose ideas to revolutionize government. Like all politicians, he has blind spots. His blind spot is he lacks concrete plans to bring his ideas to fruition. This…