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His family finally let him go…. Condolences to my friends and comrades in South Africa; although, it speaks volumes about what a beloved and influential man Nelson Mandela was that people all around the world are grieving his loss just as much. In fact, so inspiring was Mandela that, in his tribute just moments ago,… Read more.
I count myself among the dying breed of unabashed liberals who are convinced that the growing gap between rich and poor is tantamount to a metastasizing cancer in the American body politic. Moreover, our diagnosis is that almost all of the economic, political and social maladies ailing this country – from crime and unemployment to… Read more.
When Lindsey Vonn crashed during a Colorado training run two weeks ago, most commentators said that she had dashed all hopes of defending her Olympic downhill title at the Sochi Winter Olympics in two months. To be sure, re-injuring the same right knee she blew out at the World Championships last February does not bode… Read more.
I’m on record hailing Ukrainians as my favorite ex-communists. Alas, I’m also on record lamenting that, ever since their triumphal Orange Revolution in 2005, they have done nothing but trample all over my hopes for the political development of their country. Just two years after that revolution, which was supposed to set them on an… Read more.
About 30,000 protesters launched a ‘people’s coup’ on Thailand’s government on Sunday, swarming state agencies in violent clashes, taking control of a state broadcaster, and forcing the prime minister to flee a police compound… It is the latest dramatic turn in a conflict pitting Bangkok’s urban middle class and royalist elite against the mostly poor,… Read more.
Last week I published the commentary “CEO Pay Just a Reflection of America’s Economic Apartheid” (November 18), in which I sounded a clarion call for an angry populism to redress the growing gap between rich and poor. Last month I published “Bob Woodward: Republicans Are Trying to Blackmail Obama” (October 1), in which I condemned… Read more.
Do you remember the national furor a Black stripper incited in 2006 when she accused a bunch of White lacrosse players from Duke University of rape? White feminists and Black activists alike insisted that she was every bit as sympathetic as the White Central Park jogger who, arguably, remains America’s most famous rape victim. Indeed,… Read more.
Iran struck an historic agreement today with the United States and five other major nuclear powers: namely, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the UK – all represented by their respective foreign ministers. It calls for Iran to temporarily suspend developing its nuclear program in exchange for these powers (specifically the United States) temporarily suspending (only… Read more.
Given the ostentatious way the nation is marking this 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, one could be forgiven for thinking that he was the only president assassinated in office. In fact, there were three others, most notable among them Abraham Lincoln, who seems far more worthy of this kind of national tribute than JFK. Yet… Read more.
I am too young to have any memory of President John F. Kennedy. Therefore, I shall leave it to others to provide the kind of sentimental commentary this week of national remembrance evidently warrants. I will say, however, that I see no redeeming political or historical value in propagating counterfactuals about what would have happened… Read more.
