National Interest — NewsWorks

Battling black homophobia

May 21, 2012
Rate This:

1

2

3

4

5

(14 votes)
To paraphrase Martin Luther King, the long arc of history bent a bit further toward social justice on Saturday, when the nation's most prominent black civil rights organization struck a powerful blow against black homophobia.In a virtually unanimous vote by its 64-member board, the NAACP decided to follow President Obama's (belated) lead and endorse "marriage equality":"Th... More »

Wright and wrong

May 18, 2012
Rate This:

1

2

3

4

5

(24 votes)
What a shame it is that billionaire Joe Ricketts, the paymaster of an anti-Obama super PAC, has decided to reject a TV ad strategy that would've linked the president to his former pastor, Rev. Je... More »
Obama and girlfriends, continued

May 17, 2012
Rate This:

1

2

3

4

5

(32 votes)
Enough, already, with Barack Obama's wooing of women. His commencement speech at Barnard, his second presidential sitdown on The View...at this rate, we can only imagine what he'll say on Th... More »
'When human life is on the line'

May 16, 2012
Rate This:

1

2

3

4

5

(21 votes)
It's heartening to learn that Connecticut has now abolished capital punishment - the fifth state to renounce government-sanctioned death in the past five years, and the 17th state overall - becau... More »
Savior or vampire?

May 15, 2012
Rate This:

1

2

3

4

5

(18 votes)
Right on schedule, the Bain of Mitt Romney's existence is back. We knew it would be.Taking a page from the Karl Rove playbook, President Obama is taking aim at his opponent's supposed streng... More »
Talk it up or shut it down?

May 14, 2012
Rate This:

1

2

3

4

5

(17 votes)
Republicans can't seem to agree on how to handle the gay marriage issue. The party's religious right wing wants to make it the centerpiece of the '12 campaign, but the party's esta... More »
Mitt's deft dog whistle

May 13, 2012
Rate This:

1

2

3

4

5

(29 votes)
The conventional wisdom about Mitt Romney's Liberty University commencement speech is that he went easy on the right-wing pandering, that he soft-soaped the evangelical Christian graduates yester... More »
Coming soon

May 11, 2012
Rate This:

1

2

3

4

5

(13 votes)
I'm off the grid today, due to pressing work obligations elsewhere. But I do plan to write Sunday morning about Mitt Romney's Saturday commencement speech at Liberty University. The scho... More »
The arc of the moral universe

May 10, 2012
Rate This:

1

2

3

4

5

(25 votes)
Snark is cool. It's the hip 'tude of the '10s. And it's easy to get snarky about President Obama's historic endorsement of gay marriage. More »
Parsing Rick and Dick

May 9, 2012
Rate This:

1

2

3

4

5

(20 votes)
Rick Santorum's meandering, self-aggrandizing email message landed with a thud in the dead of night, and it was only after I did a control-F search for the word "endorsement" that I ma... More »

<	January 2011					>
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31