Republicans Pander on Immigration

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Return of the Welfare Queen

The Welfare Queen is an epic political lie. Reagan invented her, and Americans keep buying the lie.

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Gingrich satisfies his rage

The stage is where Newt lives, whether on the floor of Congress or some cable news set or the stump, and the GOP debate in South Carolina last week was the perfect habitat for the man, a platform for rhetoric and performance and anger, a place where he could show us how quick and …

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Malcolm X Needs a Holiday

He was the ultimate public-intellectual-as-freedom fighter, and he deserves to have a federal holiday

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Why domestic abuse victims often refuse to leave

It's very common for victims of domestic abuse to refuse to report the crime or cooperate with the police or district attorney's office.

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Barack Obama should pardon Marines

I do not defend what they did. As Army Lt. Gen.

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Newt Plays to South Carolina's Racist GOP

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Why Martin Luther King couldn't wait

Famed ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ spelled out the agony of racism

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The "Angry Black Woman" Fights Back

The Obamas’ unrelenting critics view the first family as an affront to their hateful, stilted view of American life.

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What Republicans Don't Want to Talk About

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Republicans hypocritical to bash president on recess appointments

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GOP hopefuls playing to usual racial divide

Since the 1980s, the GOP has been committed to darkening the face of poverty within the public imagination.

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The president's stingy use of pardons

Mr. Obama is on track to underperform President George W. Bush, who issued a measly 189 pardons during his two terms in office — the stingiest record of any two-term president since World War II.

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The Rick Santorum that America doesn't know

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Can Romney Capture the Tea Party?

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Holder Fights for Voters Rights

There is no significant voter-fraud problem in the United States. Rather, these laws are transparent attempts by Republican majorities to stifle and suppress the number of minorities and poor people (mostly Democrats) who go to the polls.

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Votings Rights Act Still Matters

Discrimination has evolved since 1965 to systemic abuses that dilute minorities' power at the ballot box.

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An upside-down family tree

Banks are a mechanism by which old people with capital lend to young people with energy and ideas. The Western world has now inverted the concept. If 100 geezers run up a bazillion dollars' worth of debt, is it likely that 42 youngsters will ever be able to pay it off?

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Blame Florida for the GOP's holiday craziness

Florida Republicans worried that a fast-breaking Republican race might be decided by March, which would give Florida no role in selecting the GOP nominee. So Florida Gov. Rick Scott and a group of legislators decided to move Florida's primary to Jan.

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House Republicans' petulant decision

What viewers should really have seen in the photo was the Republican leadership team whose miscalculations may soon cause payroll taxes to go up — and unemployment benefits to be truncated, and payment rates to Medicare doctors slashed.

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Hillary as VP is best response to Gingrich nomination

Day in and day out on the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton would be a stone-cold reminder of the bad old 1990s, when she and her husband battled Gingrich tooth and nail.

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Newt Out of Order

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Newt Gingrich's Self-Adoration

MARVELING over a presidential candidate’s arrogance is like noting that a hockey player wears skates. It states not just the obvious but the necessary.

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How to succeed by merit

It's not success but "earned success" that matters. American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks says that earned success is "the ability to create value honestly -- not by winning the lottery, not by inheriting a fortune, not by picking up a welfare check.

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Time to Stop the War on Workers

Congressional Republicans would be wise not just to listen, but to stop obstructing efforts to reverse the shrinkage of the middle class and rein in corporate greed. Unfortunately, I don't think that will happen next year.

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