When politics gets in the way of the Games
'The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians," Avery Brundage, a past president of the International Olympic Committee, once said. We like to think so, don't...
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Talk about race must be both ways
So, how's that national conversation on race coming along? After Sen. Barack Obama delivered his speech titled "A More Perfect Union" in Philadelphia last month, many well-meaning folks agreed that...
When a Kennedy remembered King
Forty years after his assassination, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been dead for more years than he was allowed to live. That milestone brings more media attention than usual...
Promised land: Are we there?
Words do matter. Forty years ago Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ended a rally speech in Memphis on a note that was eerily prophetic, since it would turn out to...
The politics of religion
Early reactions to Sen. Barack Obama's Big Speech in Philadelphia last week about his pastor and spiritual adviser of 20 years, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., sound like a...
Saying a mouthful
If political campaigns were political movies, Barack Obama's Big Speech deserves a Big Oscar. The Big Speech is a key characteristic of political films and TV shows, from "Mr. Smith...
Alpha males behaving really badly
Here's the $4,000 question in the Eliot Spitzer case: Why did he do it? Spitzer, alias "Client 9" to authorities, resigned as governor of New York last week after it...
A ‘Wire’ war vs. the drug war
If you're called for jury duty, let the lawyers and judges know up front that you're not going to send non-violent drug offenders to jail. That provocative piece of advice...
Clinton-Obama dream team? Oh, dream on!
Just when it seemed as though the last nails had been driven into the talk of a White House-bound dream team of Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, everything old...
Election time reflection time
Brace yourselves, young'uns. This is going to be a big year for Baby Boomer nostalgia. And what a coincidence. The 40th anniversary of the Kerner Report just happens to occur...