In his speech to the Muslim world, President Obama offered little that was new. And he didn’t connect the dots in his bullet-point lecture. He failed to recognize how the multiple problems that hover over the region are increasingly linked and feed dangerously off each other.read more

“We’ve been the nation that has shut down torture chambers and replaced tyranny with the rule of law,” he said. Tell that to the Iranians, or the Guatemalans, or the Chileans, or the Indonesians, or the Salvadorans, or the Vietnamese.read more

By not prosecuting the torturers and those ordered torture, and by not releasing the torture photos, Obama is staining himself with the crimes of his predecessor. And that’s a crime.read more
Obama has to be pulled in the right direction.read more

Obama campaigned on preserving Social Security and accused McCain of wanting to cut it. Now, by preparing an assault on Social Security, he is engaging in a huge betrayal.read more

I will never forgive Arlen Specter for his questioning of Anita Hill.
I recommit myself to challenging hetero-supremacist, bibliocratic, don’t-ask-don’t-tell denial of life.read more

Barack Obama seems to be no improvement over George Bush when it comes to the “No Fly” list.read more

After the Sept.11 attacks, Bush quickly squandered the world’s enormous goodwill towards the United States. The goodwill Obama has inspired can evaporate if the rest of the world begins to see his administration continuing too many of Bush’s policies.read more
Women should be grateful they have a man like Obama in the White House.read more
