By Bruce A. Dixon Why a Report Card At All? The hundred day report card is an enduring tradition in American journalism for a very good reason. It’s journalism’s job to help citizens make sense of the world, to seek the truth and tell it without fear or favor no matter where it leads. Three [...]
By Jerry D. Rose Common Dreams yesterday posted an article by Norman Solomon, one of a seemingly endless series of “Progressives for Obama” pieces that have urged the necessity of a grassroots progressive movement to keep pressure on Obama to carry forth a progressive agenda. Most of the comments posted on the article, including my [...]
by michael hureaux perez President Obama has now been to Baghdad and the great white way of U.S. leftism is busy choking up over the footage of the Prez with “our troops.” For those of you out there who don’t understand what an imperialist doggie the new president is just yet, here he is in [...]
By Jerry D. Rose On March 25, the Washington Post reported on a leaked memo from the Pentagon in which an official conveyed that it was the “intention” of the Obama administration that no longer were the nation’s foreign conflicts be designated as part of a “global war on terror” but rather as “overseas contingency [...]
By Glen Ford The latest New York Times/CBS News poll shows President Barack Obama’s stock is soaring in popularity, while the Republican brand has sunk to its lowest level in modern polling history. The results no doubt reflect a certain aspect of reality: the GOP is, for the time being, a loser in the American [...]
By Jerry D. Rose As a retired sociology professor, l thought perhaps I had taught college students a thing or two over the course of a 35 year teaching career. It now appears to me that I never really taught anything until last week when I read a book to a class of kindergarteners with [...]
By michael hureaux perez The central issue of the modern political world (so far as many of us are concerned) was framed eloquently by Joy James in her study Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture thirteen years ago: Civil Rights activist Ella Baker’s pronouncement that ‘strong people don’t need a strong [...]
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