I dunno . . . I think Nia-Malika Henderson, a black reporter at Politico, is reaching too far with her claim that Obama is speaking “dog-whistle code” to blacks by using contemporary slang expressions. I think she has a much too uncritical take on the issue, and both unfairly tars Obama ...

Somebody at the Department of Labor just re-posted this original report from 1965. It is heart-wrenching in how closely its high-level observations (aside from particulars of detail that have changed in 40 years) remain true, and to what degree the “savage and brutal effort” of so many p...

It’s been a hard transition for the GOP, that much is obvious. If they deserved it, I’d almost feel sorry for them, but mostly I’m just reminded of the subway rats I sometimes see lying in rancid pools on the tracks, kicking their legs in spastic agony while the strychnine does its...