WATCH: Muslim Congressman Tears Up While Testifying Against Anti-Muslim 'Scapegoating'
NPR seems to have a crisis every time they encounter a situation where their contributors and staff are revealed to be human beings who have points of view on various and sundry matters. NPR is hardly the only media organization with this problem, but they're the only one that keeps tripping headlong over it in headline-making pratfalls and have an extant need to keep a bunch of politicians happy. At some point, you have to wonder if the spectacles aren't exacerbated by the dependency.
Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans have now made it crystal clear that their goal all along had nothing whatever to do with the state budget and everything to do with busting unions.
The King hearings do little to keep our country secure and do plenty to increase prejudice, discrimination and hate. I thought we learned a lesson or two from my internment camp experience in Colorado. I hope I am not proven wrong.
Republicans say they need to make budget cuts because "America is broke." But at the very same time they voted to cut education programs like Head Start, they voted to continue $4 billion worth of subsidies to Big Oil.
Peter King's hearings are a political show to play to the fringe base, not a real attempt to better our security. And, unfortunately, it comes at the expense of our troops fighting overseas.
Despite Wednesday evening's news of a bill being forced through here in Madison, Wisconsin, protestors are maintaining hope that their voices will be heard by Governor Walker.
Broder was incapable of purple prose or of leaving political fingerprints on his copy. But he knew he wasn't perfect. In his last column of each year, he used to list everything he got wrong that year. Who else in Washington admits mistakes?
I would remind Governor Walker of these words from Clarence Darrow: "With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed."
The reality is that obesity is a chronic, relapsing, neurochemical disease with a genetic basis. Simply telling an obese person to "eat less and exercise more" is overly simplistic and demonstrably ineffective
Simpler and cheaper solutions exist than the emotional confrontations that have resulted from the firing of Charlie Sheen, the threat to union jobs or the possible cancellation of the NFL season.
The Egyptian Revolution is not over, but the period of feel-good flag-waving may be. What I witnessed today was the first time the military has turned decisively against protesters, who are themselves now becoming divided.
Another film version is an occasion for celebration, an excellent reminder during Women's History Month that certain historical heroines deliver the goods to us as much any modern girls.
Without restructuring financial institutions' balance sheets and their operations, as well as their assets the economic recovery will suffer, and the seeds will be sown for the next crisis.
This week, as we celebrate the occasion once again and reflect on the great strides made over the last century, we know their work is unfinished.
I predict the naked power grab by the Republican party in Wisconsin will go down in history as the second "shot heard 'round the world" which began the second American Revolution. Except it won't be a revolution. It will be a transformation.
Kill the Irishman is a mobster movie with a lot of meat on the bone, even if some of it is tough or stringy. It's not fancy, but it's always tasty.
In the wake of the Wisconsin Senate's end-run to strip public employees of collective bargaining rights, the top labor unions are organizing state-wide protests Thursday morning.
If one thing is clear from the tea party movement, it is that the power of democratic engagement can have a more profound impact on the causes that grantmaking foundations and charities care about than all of their prized innovations.
Over time the prime directive of feminism seemed to get inflected from power to happiness, such that today, when individual women find themselves struggling with the opportunities that feminism secured, they become walking indictments of feminism.
To this day, Peter King continues to describe the IRA as "a legitimate force" fighting British repression, which rather begs the question of how he views Hamas or Fatah.
Scott Walker has taken Wisconsin, a state so chock-full of "Midwestern nice," you need insulin after talking to the locals, and turned into a place where people are talking General Strike. Seriously.
Americans are seeing Arabs and Muslims as if for the first time, and we are, despite ourselves, impressed and moved. In this regard, too, the Arab revolution has been, well, revolutionary.
Every Orwellian campaign needs a compliant press, and the Social Security Slashers led by Pete Peterson have been particularly lucky (or effective) in this area.
After a month of passionate public outcry against his union-busting strategy, Governor Walker has an opportunity to demonstrate his ability to govern with reason and moderation.
The stations' interests and NPR's interests are no longer aligned. That is the elephant in the studio. Schiller tried to improve the stations' lot, but in the end, the stations will fear a stronger NPR.
