Clarence Lusane

It’s been 20 years since Nelson Mandela was released from prison, time to take stock of this giant man and of the changes he brought to South Africa.read more

Every big and potentially big polluter acted in raw, short-term financial self-interest. Meanwhile, here on planet Earth, climate change continues, and countries without clout are going to get the most clobbered.read more

Sen. Hillary Clinton has disgracefully pursued a disturbing strategy of racial opportunism.read more

There are two things we can be sure of in America: Tax Day on April 15th and Bush administration mendacity on Iraq. Both have become dreaded facts of life. read more

Sen. Hillary “as far as I know” Clinton is not sure if Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim or not. But, in truth, she is sure; she just wants you to have some doubts about it. It is in that and other moments of political calculation that the modern embodiment of the Southern Strategy is coming to define the Clinton campaign.read more

Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy represents a challenge to the Democratic Party establishment and to many old civil-rights leaders.read more

Some of the world’s most respected and venerable leaders have recently stepped forward to help take care of our global village.read more

November 28, 2006

The smoke had barely cleared on the 2006 election when the sprint for 2008 began in earnest. In the middle of it is Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.read more

November 14, 2006

In the recent election, several significant events in black politics flew under the radar.read more

October 31, 2006

In the final days of the election season, the GOP is getting desperate.read more

October 3, 2006

The president has launched another preemptive strike. This time he has aimed at the U.S. Constitution.read more

May 3, 2006

The U.S. response to Darfur has been one of immoral neglect.read more

February 28, 2006

The education president's education project is failing.

President Bush's No Child Left Behind law has generated increasing bipartisan resistance among legislators and at the grassroots levels.read more

November 15, 2005

The fires in France may be dying down but the rage will burn on.

For decades, France has allowed debilitating ghettos on the edge of Paris and other cities to fester, all the while denying that discrimination, racial or religious, has been involved. The last weeks of riots have scorched those illusions and placed the issue of racism and xenophobia on the French political map.read more

July 14, 2005

On Sept. 11, 2001, I was living in London.

On July 7, 2005, I was living in Washington.

I've missed both terrorist attacks by a fluke. And at this moment, in part because of the policies of President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair, the United States and Great Britain are not safe.read more