This Just In

People are looking for answers. And Sarah Palin is providing them. They are simplistic answers. They are foolish answers. They are the wrong answers. But they have an appeal.read more

History will record that in February 2010, full equality for gays and lesbians came another step closer to reality.read more

People filled his empty but gift-wrapped box labeled “Hope” with huge dreams of a better America. We wanted him to be a mix of Martin Luther King and FDR, but the odds always were against that.read more

Thank you, Howard Zinn, for always being there, for teaching us about class conflict in America, for championing equality, for renouncing nationalism and denouncing war, and for exalting the activist, the poet, the singer, the actor, the artist.read more

This spending freeze, which, in traditional Republican fashion, exempts the Pentagon, is a colossal blunder.read more

There’s always trillions for war and bank bailouts, but when we come to claim what is ours, all of a sudden the cupboards are bare.read more

“The profit motive ultimately is not compatible with the public service of journalism.”read more

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, threw out decades of Supreme Court precedents so as to coddle corporate expenditures on elections. If we are to obtain even the semblance of democratic self-rule, we need a constitutional amendment overturning this decision.read more

Obama can’t fire himself. And he needs a chief of staff with the wisdom to help point him down a bold, progressive path. The Emanuel path is a dead end.read more

He’s reacted swiftly, he’s struck the right moral tone, and he’s pledged $100 million in aid. But did he have to appoint George W. Bush? And what if U.S. troops start firing on looters in Haiti?read more

Wolf Blitzer acts like he’ll be sorely disappointed if the death toll doesn’t exceed 100,000. He’s turning himself into a pornographer of disaster, a carnival barker of death.read more

“Col. Davis brings these claims not only to vindicate his own constitutional rights but also the public’s First Amendment right to receive his speech and hear his views,” the ACLU lawsuit says.read more

The D.C. Circuit Court’s decision is a flagrant act of insubordination. It marks a huge step backward, and it underlies the hysteria that has taken over the country since the Christmas bombing attempt.read more

“You’re targeting good Americans who just want to practice their faith and dress modestly.”read more

The U.S. government and the fulminators on the right are not only going to be searching through endless haystacks, they are also going to be creating enmity among people in all these countries who are singled out. On top of that, the anti-Muslim rhetoric and any de facto anti-Muslim policy will invite hate crimes here in the United States.read more