Politics

If you don’t like Newt Gingrich’s carefully considered and passionately argued position on the U.S. intervention in Libya, just wait. Recent history suggests that within days he’ll be saying the opposite of whatever he’s saying now. My best guess is that for the moment, at least, Gingrich kind of supports President Obama’s decision to use…

Emi Kolowale of the Washington Post is reporting that President Barack Obama has launched his re-election bid via a YouTube video posted on BarackObama.com. The video features individuals professing their desire to be involved in the Obama 2012 campaign effort. “The last couple of elections we’ve had have almost been turning-point campaigns,” said one participant…

Seventeen years ago, I was an organizer in Mississippi. And I was scared. We were planning a march to stop the governor from turning a public, historically black university, Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, into a prison. Byron De La Beckwith had just been put in prison for killing Medgar Evers — the…

I woke up Friday, read the news and prayed that it was some sort of macabre April Fools Day joke. Unfortunately, that was not the case. This is one of the worst times in the history of Côte d’Ivoire, a beautiful West African nation that was once a model of economic success. Yet I can’t…

In what is being hailed as a national Day of Solidarity, hundred of thousands of teachers, nurses, students, clergy, firefighters and other workers from across the nation will hold “We Are One” demonstrations to show support for Wisconsin union employees to demand a stop to overreaching policies by Republican lawmakers trying to balance budgets on…

It was a bad sign at oral argument in Connick v. Thompson last October that the plight of John Thompson was never mentioned. In his opening remarks, his attorney tried to refer to his client. But the justices weren’t having any of it. Not one of the nine made a specific reference to Thompson, who…

MSNBC is reporting that President Barack Obama predicted Tuesday that continued military and diplomatic pressure will force Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to “ultimately step down.” In an interview with NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams a day after he addressed the nation about U.S. involvement in Libya, Obama refused to rule out providing direct U.S.…

There’s a new conversation bubbling up these days at Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington, Delaware. “We’ve been researching best practices, visiting other schools to learn about programs that have worked for them, and we are constantly talking about what’s best for our students,” says assistant principal Clifton Hayes. “Vice President Biden coming by…

Leave it to the inimitable Sarah Palin to have an incoherent — make that asinine — reaction to President Barack Obama’s strongly argued case for America’s intervention in the Libyan civil war. On one hand, the Republican presidential wannabe protested, “We’re not hearing from our president what is the endgame here. And with Qaddafi still…

On the list of types of state legislation with the potential for big national impact, voter identification is right up there with moves to reduce collective-bargaining rights of public-sector unions. Such efforts, which would require voters to provide ID at the polls, are being voted on amid fierce debate in many states. But are they…