Politics

Like just about everyone else last week, I read “What Single Women Can Learn From Michelle”—Jenée Desmond-Harris’ sista grrl power manifesto—with keen interest. After all, I’m just as concerned as the next guy with staying up on what “successful black women, with college degrees, ambitious careers and five-year plans” are really thinking.  I ought to…

“From the moment I took office as President, the central challenge we have confronted as a nation has been the need to lift ourselves out of the worst recession since World War II. In recent months, we have taken a series of extraordinary steps, not just to repair the immediate damage to our economy, but…

Facing opposition over his proposed public health insurance alternative, President Obama is trying to maintain some leverage in the discussion by considering lessening the amount of medical malpractice lawsuits. Attempting to woo doctors and conservatives alike, the president feels that lowering the number of malpractice suits could have a positive effect on driving down health…

Rusty DePass, former South Carolina state senator candidate and budding comedian, likes to make funnies. Commenting on a gorilla that escaped from South Carolina’s Red Banks Zoo Friday night, DePass noted on Facebook that the animal was probably a relative of Michelle Obama’s and thus, harmless. As you might imagine, that comment went over like…

There’s a famous photograph, taken by Charles Moore, of Martin Luther King Jr. being shuffled off to jail by two Montgomery, Ala., police officers. King had been loitering, meaning he sat down for a meal at a segregated restaurant. The image of the crime’s aftermath is striking for a number of reasons: the cops’ stone-faced…

As the full impact of the financial crisis was emerging, Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota Republican, took to the floor of the House to blame the Community Reinvestment Act for the crisis. “The government was goading these mortgage lenders, saying, ‘You’re redlining. You’re being discriminatory. If you don’t give loans out to marginally credit-worthy people…

Before Rep. Donna Edwards, of Maryland’s Fourth Congressional district, traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories for the first time in May, she hadn’t thought much about minorities in the Jewish state: “As an African-American woman, I really didn’t have a perception of a significant minority population in Israel, and there is,” she told the…

If you’re the author of a book called Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win, one would expect that you would be humbly engaged in the task of explaining why you got it all wrong and that you’d lay off the bold predictions for a while. But maybe that’s too much…

The Jews are keeping Rev. Jeremiah Wright from talking to President Obama. At least, that’s what he told reporters this week following Hampton University’s 95th Annual Ministers’ Conference reports BET. Wright said: “Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he’ll talk to me in five years…

Barack Obama can only be president for eight years (unless he pulls a Mike Bloomberg, and we doubt even he’s got juice like that). So what names will we hear on the political landscape in the coming years?  Over on The Daily Beast is a nice medley of future leaders including Newark’s Cory Booker and…