Politics

Ever since President Barack Obama took office, a pretty reliable pattern has emerged: On a regular basis someone will say, write or tweet something racist about the president and the media will cover it—including yours truly. Someone apologizes for the remark (or doesn’t), and someone else distances himself or his organization from the offender in…

“No matter who you are, or where you came from—or the circumstances into which you are born—if you work hard, if you take responsibility, then you can make it in this country.” President Barack Obama spoke those words in February when he announced his My Brother’s Keeper initiative, focused on empowering and improving the lives…

As President Barack Obama dropped foreign policy science on graduating West Point cadets, a fresh battle re-emerged over whether or not he actually has a foreign policy, rekindling fresh rounds of debate over the existence of an “Obama doctrine.” Hating conservatives are as convinced of its nonexistence as they are in doubt about his birthplace.…

If North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis was under the impression that implementing new rules in the state Capitol for public demonstrations would be enough to silence the Moral Mondays protesters who made Raleigh, N.C., a focal point in progressive politics during last year’s legislative session, he might want to rethink. After all, as the…

On Monday I had an appointment at the Manhattan campus of the Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System. I arrived a half-hour early for my late-afternoon appointment and hoped by some rare chance I might be seen ahead of schedule. Maybe earlier in the day someone had canceled. I was wrong. In this waiting…

The widening scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs signals that the government is incapable of managing the nation’s vast health care system, retired neurosurgeon-turned-GOP icon Ben Carson told Fox News Saturday. Carson, a Fox News contributor, joins a growing chorus of critics of the Obama administration over recently surfaced problems at veterans hospitals, including…

During his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, President Barack Obama said that Memorial Day is a time to remember military heroes whose sacrifices helped build the country. He also made a link between the holiday and the bubbling scandal over charges of misconduct at Veterans Affairs hospitals. He said the nation must do more…

Rep. John Conyers’ reelection campaign got a boost Friday when U.S. Circuit Judge Matthew Leitman ordered Michigan officials to put his name back on the ballot, the Washington Post reports. Conyers was first elected to office 1964. The order came just hours after state election officials upheld an earlier decision to remove Conyers’ name from…