On the issue of same sex marriage, the U.S. Supreme Court should follow the lead of the NAACP.read more

The present $7.25 federal minimum wage is a national disgrace.read more

President Obama must hold the line in any negotiations with Republicans over the budget deficit.read more

The Republican scheme to limit voting on Election Day is shameful. By Darryl Lorenzo Wellingtonread more

This Aug. 6th, let us remember the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and let us finally get out from under the nuclear shadow.read more

The Republican primaries may eventually crown a winner. But none of the candidates will have earned the mantle of a leader.read more

Yes, today, we have a president who is a black American, and de jure segregation is a thing of the past. But we don’t yet have a shared history of who we are as a nation.read more

With their actions on behalf of the foreclosed upon, the Occupy Wall Street movement is proving, once and for all, how different it is from the Tea Party movement.read more

The state of Georgia is preparing to execute a man whose conviction was based on several eyewitness accounts that have now been recanted.read more

America has never taken full responsibility for a catastrophe that was the fault of government incompetence and neglect. We have not learned the lessons of Katrina until we begin to acknowledge the rights of the poor as a matter of course rather than through arduous litigation.read more

News reporting has to be a public service. Just as no public deserves a state-controlled media in the hands of a totalitarian government, no public deserves media outlets that are the clandestine tools of a king-making billionaire.read more

The successful mission against Osama bin Laden should put to rest all the demeaning questions about President Obama’s fitness for office.read more

We do not have to remain stuck helplessly in a yearly cycle of guilty silence, hoping that Thanksgiving doesn’t seem – at its crassest — to be “giving thanks” for exterminated Indians.read more