The Republican response that raising the federal minimum wage would maim small businesses is wrong and amounts to “chicken little” scare tactics.read more

To win the White House, any candidate will need women, blacks, Latinos, Asian-Americans, middle- and working-class people, gays and other people the Republican Party has dismissed for far too long.read more

Mitt Romney’s latest attack on Americans who are “dependent” on the government is far off the mark.read more

This is a parent’s worst nightmare: Your child fails to return home and you find out from law enforcement it is because he has been gunned down allegedly by the local neighborhood watch vigilante.read more

President Obama recognizes that he needs the Latino vote to win in 2012, and he has wisely chosen a superb Latina to be the political director of his re-election campaign.read more

The stimulus money has not benefited those who need it the most. Only a tiny fraction of the funded projects has gone to minority contractors and businesses — 5.9 percent, according to the Insight Center for Community Economic Development.read more