Politics

This is a painful story to write because I’ve considered Juan Williams a friend since we covered Jesse Jackson’s first presidential campaign back in 1984, when Juan was with the Washington Post and I was with Time magazine.  We attended the same Episcopal church in Washington before I moved to Richmond, Va., a few years…

Just like the widely hailed death of Osama bin Laden in May or the more recent — and more controversial — death of Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki at the hands of the U.S. military, the death of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi at the end of an eight-month fight between loyalists and NATO-backed rebels was accompanied…

All that missionary field service paid off for Mitt Romney in the GOP debate Tuesday when the Texas governor confronted him like a heathen in a barroom hankering for a brawl. “Mitt,” said Rick Perry, squaring off as he called him out, “you lose all of your standing, from my perspective, because you hired illegals…

During an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan on Piers Tonight, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain tried to explain his debate gaffe about being willing to negotiate “with terrorists” as president, saying that he misspoke. Then, in response to a question about whether modern American society is spoiled, he described Occupy Wall Street protesters as spoiled.…

Twenty years ago Anita Hill, University of Oklahoma law professor and private citizen, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee and threw a giant monkey wrench into the well-oiled, old-boys machine that was rubber-stamping Clarence Thomas’ confirmation to the Supreme Court. Of course, to the shock and lingering dismay of many (Thurgood Marshall still sits somewhere…

It has taken 20 years for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to strip away the political filth that nearly buried him. In 1991 his left-wing critics created a public image of Thomas as a monster. They trashed him as an Uncle Tom, Anita Hill’s harasser and the vote on the Supreme Court that would end…

Anger and disillusionment over the widening wealth gap may have reached a national tipping point, as evidenced by the Occupy Wall Street movement. Yet leading politicians rarely mention poor folks. “It’s almost as if poverty is a dirty word,” economist Julianne Malveaux, president of Bennett College for Women, told The Root. “Joe Biden is leading…

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