by Tula Connell | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
Massachusetts voters sent a strong signal to Washington lawmakers Tuesday that they want results—and aren't seeing any. Not on health care reform, not on job creation and not on fixing the nation's economy. Voters also sent another powerful message for Democrats:...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
It does not matter whether today's pronouncement on financial reform by President Obama was prompted by Tuesday's election disaster in Massachusetts or was a long-building unleashing of his inner populist. What matters is the potential for real White House leadership...
by Eric Lotke | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
People have been wondering for years who runs our country. People or wealthy corporations? Today the Supreme Court settled the debate. Today’s decision, Citizens United v. FEC, tilts the balance of power in the country even farther towards wealthy and corporate...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 to make George W. Bush President allow large corporations to spend as much as needed to place their candidates in office, so that they will pass laws: giving them access to government funds restricting their smaller competitors allowing...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
...It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a...
