The freakout is understandable. Economic trust is breaking down. Investors are buying Treasury bills that pay no interest because they're scared to leave their money...
Newspaper people love that sort of thing.For the more historically minded, it's a time for nostalgia. The past comes alive as Chicago's grand tradition of corruption is...
White liberals played along. "I think the general black attitude might be that white people place a huge emphasis on innocent or guilty because that way they can...
Newsweek, Time, the Washington Post, 60 Minutes and, of course, The O Network (formerly known as MSNBC) have all run wild with this stuff. Depicting Obama as FDR or...
Before you answer that, please ask yourself what your point of view on this question was during the eight years of the Bush administration.FDR took office promising...
To listen to many pundits, it means Republicans must become Democrats. The GOP has become too socially conservative, and if it wants to win the support of mainstream...
The view on the right is very different, and the debate about the Bush years will largely determine the future of the Republican Party and the conservative...
The ban in California was particularly intriguing. Proposition 8 would have failed in the Golden State if it were up to white voters, who opposed it by a 51-49 ratio....
There are differences between then and now, to be sure. For starters, there was still a great deal of work left to be done on civil rights in 1964 (and John McCain is no...
Many journalists are so convinced that racism is the only possible explanation for an Obama loss that they are beginning to see any effective anti-Obama ad as an attempt...
Obama, they may be realizing, doesn't know how to close the deal.Nonetheless, the Obama campaign has vowed, once again, to take the gloves off and go after McCain hard,...
And that's one of the nicer things she had to say. Really.On Tuesday, Salon ran one article calling Palin a dominatrix ("a whip-wielding mistress") and another labeling...
Of course, it was hardly the only journalistic will-o'-the-wisp unleashed from the media bog. The claim that Palin was a Buchananite -- and hence an acolyte of a "Nazi...
The winds at the Democrats' backs are hurricane-force gales, and yet there's Obama holding steady, like a young Dan Rather in his schoolgirl rain slicker, immobile and...
Houston Chronicle science blogger Eric Berger notes that everyone should be "very glad that the central collections office has not become a white hole, a theoretical...
In his speech on national service Wednesday at the University of Colorado, Obama promised that as president he would "set a goal for all American middle and high school...
That's hardly surprising. At the end of their run, presidents usually become preoccupied with world affairs -- an area in which they have a much freer hand. On Capitol...