Politics

The discrepancy is over “wholes” versus “whores.” Members of the NAACP say the audio is questionable. A graduation card sold at local stores has been pulled from shelves after a civil rights group raised concerns about the content. The group claims the card’s micro-speaker plays a greeting that’s racist. It is a graduation greeting from…

Police chiefs from across the country who met recently with Attorney General Eric Holder have made no secret of their opposition to Arizona’s controversial law targeting illegal immigrants. They also have not been shy about their desire to see the Obama administration, not state legislatures, take the lead on enforcing federal immigration laws. The chiefs…

by Perry Bacon Jr. The defeat of Rep. Artur Davis in his campaign to become Alabama’s first black governor halted the rise of a man viewed as part of a new generation of young black politicians and showed the limits other politicians might face in using the tactics that helped Barack Obama win the presidency.…

On the second day of his confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court, then-Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall got into a verbal tussle with Sen. Sam Ervin of North Carolina. Only a year before Marshall’s hearing, the Supreme Court had decided Miranda v. Arizona, the case in which the Supreme Court held that prosecutors would be unable…

Well, well, well. It seems that the nonverbal communication tool of radio silence is not enough for a police officer to determine if a suspect wants to remain silent. The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that suspects must explicitly tell police they want to be silent to invoke Miranda protections during criminal interrogations, a decision one…

As oil continues to spew forth from the site of the Deepwater Horizon explosion 40 miles off America’s coastline, an increasing number of pundits and politicians are questioning President Barack Obama’s decision-making in the wake of the spill. BP’s recent “top kill” plan to stop the leak effectively sunk, and some have taken to calling…

When people complain that the Obama administration is acting un-American, they have two recent examples to use in supporting their case. One involves Arizona’s immigration bill, the other, the Joe Sestak controversy in Pennsylvania. U.S. Justice Department attorneys recently recommended that the federal government should challenge Arizona’s SB 1070 on grounds of unconstitutionality—even after the…

Does Glenn Beck have any shame? He’d like for us to think he does because the conservative host quickly apologized for making fun of President Barack Obama’s 11-year-old daughter Malia on his radio show last week. For about four minutes, Beck and co-host Pat Gray pretended to be the president and his daughter. Speaking in…