I continued to look for any reference to the semicentennial by major American companies or brands, and didn't find much, other than a comical gaffe from the Golf Channel.
Education represents the key to our future. Until our state and national leaders make sure a high percentage of our best and brightest go on to pass that knowledge on to the leaders of our future we are doomed as a nation.
I was only 18, 50 years ago yesterday, when, against official advice warning of violence, a few of my friends and I trekked to the Lincoln Memorial from suburban Maryland for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Is the Tea Party poisoning the Grand Old Party? Republicans have never been particularly good at governing, but the Tea Party makes it impossible.
Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele recently sat down with 92Y Producer Jordan Chariton at The Jefferson Hotel in Wash...
While Republicans seem willing to make drastic changes to education using the power of the government, they apparently feel differently regarding our supposedly broken health care system.
Being an American voter is like being stranded in the desert and choosing between espresso and moonshine. Both seem to be choices of flavor over utility.
Opponents of Obamacare know that time is not on their side. There is an expiration date on their long-running campaign to scare the bejesus out of Americans about the awful things that will happen if health care reform is not mortally wounded by year's end.
New IPCC Report: Greater Certainty of Human-Driven Global Warming, Impacts Are Speeding Up reports Joe Romm at Climate Progress. The likely heating wi...
Where are there enough intelligent Republicans on the Hill to oppose the proposed impeachment proceedings against President Obama? If they didn't get ...
An even bigger problem though is that by focusing so heavily on Summers, the president has inadvertently narrowed the field down to only two candidates: Larry Summers and Janet Yellen.
We live in a skybox nation, where the rich and the poor very rarely meet and therefore understand little about each other. For Fox News anchors, a minimum wage job is a fun thing you do over the summer to get out of the house; for most people, it's their livelihood.
So it is a reflection of social progress that so many conservative Republican lawmakers and right-wing leaders try to wrap themselves in the moral authority of the civil rights movement. But it's also a reflection of cynical political posturing.
Hypnotized by a toxic blend of Reaganomics and Objectivism, Republicans don't understand how the economy works or the concerns of middle-class families.
Could a typical, everyday Republican who meditates someday hear the cries of poverty, the danger of rising oceans, proliferation of arms, and aggression against women and children?
Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele recently sat down with 92Y Producer Jordan Chariton at The Jefferson Hotel in Wash...