End the Drug War, Mr. President
Yes, we know we’re tempting fate. But we figure there’s a 50 percent chance Obama will get reelected, and in any case he needs an agenda to campaign on. So we’ve asked a number of TNR writers to explain what they think Obama should focus on for the next four years if he wins in November. Click here to read the collected contributions. READ MORE >>
Will This Be the First Election Where Class Trumps Race?
A Horrible Production of 'Porgy and Bess'
A New York Times Op-Ed That Would Have Appalled Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Day is supposed to get us thinking about how black people have come a long way but still have a long way to go. Okay, but what MLK Day has me as a black person thinking about is Lee Siegel. READ MORE >>
Why Eric Holder’s Effort to Help Minority Voters Could Backfire
Hey Newt! Poor Kids Already Are Familiar With the Virtues of Work—And It’s Because Of You
When Newt Gingrich proposed that poor children should be put to work—for a “three- or four-hour-a-day job,” he clarified this week—he was rightly accused of threatening national child-labor laws. But he was also displaying a curious lack of familiarity with his own political accomplishments. READ MORE >>
Words, Mere Words: Newt Gingrich Speaks Well. But Is He Smart?
The Singer, Not the Song
I DON’T NEED Harry Belafonte to tell me what it means to be black,” Condoleezza Rice once said in response to Belafonte’s castigation of her and Colin Powell for serving in George W. Bush’s administration. The line registered because of its implication of something a tad kitschy about Belafonte as a public figure, as if the criticism had come from, say, Tony Orlando. READ MORE >>
