Politics

Outraged at AIG? Take your spot in line. While you’re there, gawk at all of your esteemed company. First you’ll find both aisles of Congress—“This is an outrage,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will be repeating over and over again to Barney Frank, who will be murmuring about misbehavior and abuse of the system. Further…

Recently Forbes ran a contentious article that slipped through the cracks without much commentary. The piece, written by Jason Richwine of the American Enterprise Institute, declared Indian Americans “The New Model Minority,” as if we were competing for the title in a pageant. Let’s clear this up once and for all. Being called a “model…

Michael Steele probably saw Blazing Saddles once upon a time and then envisioned himself as the hero, Sheriff Bart: saving the humble citizens of Rock-Ribbed Republican Ridge before riding off into the sunset on his trusty steed, tipping his 10-gallon hat. But perhaps Steele would have preferred to skip over the part where Sheriff Bart…

Flanked by a cadre of beaming, successful women, President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls yesterday. But the president may have to reconcile that with the fact that the centerpiece of his administration so far—the passage of the economic stimulus package—may in fact end up hurting…

Michelle Obama’s arms have been getting an inordinate amount of attention lately. It’s not unsolicited; the most modern first lady has appeared sleeveless on the covers of Vogue and People, at 10 inaugural balls, at a party for Stevie Wonder, at her husband’s address to Congress, and most recently, in her official White House portrait,…

The big wins posted by Democrats at the polls in November led to an all-out culture war within the Republican Party. Since then, the party has sought to redefine itself, re-imagine its purpose and reinvigorate its followers in order to be competitive again in 2010. So far, not so much. But one of the important…

Ingmar Guandique is serving time for attacks on two women at knifepoint. And now an arrest warrant has been issued for him in the highly publicized case involving Chandra Levy, the 24-year-old former federal government intern whose body was found in the same park where Guandique’s two attacks occurred. Can you be arrested if you’re…

Join the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on THE REAL DEAL ON THE NEW DEAL with The Root’s Michael Dawson. ***** It is often forgotten that, for all of its benefits, the New Deal reinforced structural black economic disadvantage in many ways. It is certainly true that the Work Projects Administration (WPA) put many blacks to work,…

The word “Arab” is used way too liberally in the American vernacular. Since 9/11 and the advent of our six-year war, the term has become a mutilated mainstay in public debate—a common appropriation, the de facto cultural label for all things Islamic, terrorist-related or alien. During the last presidential election John McCain supporters used the…

SELMA—Forty four years later, the 44th president of the United States is black. Things do change. From behind the gates of the Alabama governor’s mansion in 1965, Peggy Wallace watched as marchers made their way to the state capitol in a stand for voting rights. Her father, then Gov. George C. Wallace, led his state…