Lubna Hussein, Hero Lubna Hussein, Hero
When the subject of Islamic dress comes up, it's often phrased the way President Obama put it in his Cairo speech -- as women's right to wear what they want. Hear, hear. ...
Aug 10, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Conservatives are the Real Joker Conservatives are the Real Joker
SOCIALISM is the tag line of a bizarre new campaign against President Obama. The word "Socialism" appears across an image portraying President Obama as Heath Ledger's J...
Aug 5, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
MSNBC & FOX: Posing Divided, United They Stand MSNBC & FOX: Posing Divided, United They Stand
There are days when one's reminded why one works in independent media. August 1st was one of those days, when the New York Times ran a front page media story th...
Aug 4, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Race, Lies, and Health Scares Race, Lies, and Health Scares
It'd be nice to think that the recent surge in overtly racist rhetoric on the right has been a case of random opportunism, provoked by the coincidence of a wealthy black Harvard pr...
Aug 2, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Beer is Nice but Equal Protection’s Better Beer is Nice but Equal Protection’s Better
The National Council of La Raza, a top Latino civil rights group, is taking a shot at RNC chair Michael Steele and several prominent GOP figures for skipping its ongoing an...
Jul 30, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Dean Slams Senate Finance Committee Dean Slams Senate Finance Committee
Howard Dean guest hosted Countdown with Keith Olbermann at an opportune time last night, following reports that the Senate Finance Committee--helmed by Montana Democrat Max Baucus-...
Jul 29, 2009 / Ari Berman
The Birthers of a Nation The Birthers of a Nation
The long hunt for the new leader of the Republican Party has at last come to an end, and the winner isn't Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, or even Sarah Palin, but this woman in a red T...
Jul 24, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Skip Gates and the Post-Racial Project Skip Gates and the Post-Racial Project
Over the past several days a strange characterization of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has emerged. Many are portraying him as a radical who easily and inappropriately appeals t...
Jul 22, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Misused TARP Funds Shocker Misused TARP Funds Shocker
Told to make more loans, TARP banks made fewer, gambled on the stock market and bought other banks. Will we "tell" them to go to their rooms? Or at least cut their allowa...
Jul 21, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Sotomayor and the Politics of Public Humiliation Sotomayor and the Politics of Public Humiliation
One of the most enduring images of the Civil Rights Movement is of Elizabeth Eckford. She is being harassed and taunted by a group of white students, parents, and police on her w...
Jul 17, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry