Clarence Lusane

President Obama is betraying his own promises and his Democratic base by agreeing to cut Social Security.read more

A once-promising career has come to a bitter end. Congress has lost the voice of one of its most progressive members. So has the nation.read more

Republicans can crow about diversity all they want. But to the extent that it exists at all, it’s just window-dressing.read more

Aging and redistricting are taking their toll on this embodiment of black politics.read more

Time may be running out on two of the most venerable members of Congress and veterans of the Congressional Black Caucus.read more

The United States is shamefully implicated in the terror that Charles Taylor, erstwhile leader of Liberia, inflicted on the people of West Africa.read more

This Sunday, Aug. 21, is the 180th anniversary of the slave rebellion led by the Rev. Nat Turner in Virginia.read more

Thank goodness for Republican extremism. The Republican refusal to budge even one millimeter on taxes for the rich will likely save President Obama from himself.read more

He may state his views more articulately than Sarah Palin, with more vigor than Tim Pawlenty, and with equal bombast as Newt Gingrich, but in the end he goes nowhere new or compelling.read more

The White House must draw the right conclusions from recent dismal polls.read more

The regime of 87-year-old strongman Robert Mugabe has sought to pre-empt the types of protests that have shaken autocrats in North Africa and the Middle East. Yet, a constellation of internal and external events may finally bring an end to the more than 30 years of one-man rule.read more

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