Huma Abedin is free to forgive Anthony Weiner’s transgressions, but New York voters don’t have to.

Education, public safety, reliable buses, libraries — what should a community have to provide?

– “There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me.” Barack Obama   I am Trayvon Martin. Distill it to its marrow, and that is what African-Americans have been telling other Americans since February 2012 when […]

Don’t expect a woman in public office to be forgiven for acting like Eliot Spitzer or Anthony Weiner.

To grasp the impact of living with these disorders, we must see more than the inspirational stories.

Mohandas Gandhi went to Yeravda Central Prison. Martin Luther King, Jr. went to Birmingham jail. Nelson Mandela went to Robben Island. Edward Snowden is going to Venezuela. Or not. His destination was up in the air as these words were written. A Russian lawmaker tweeted on Tuesday that Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. contractor, had […]

President Obama needs to get all of America’s regional allies working with the new government.

The Voting Rights Act was the most important achievement of the Civil Rights Movement.

There are fine points of a culture that can take a generation or two before they make sense.

Government has failed to make needed changes, but activists are working to fix a broken system.