North Carolina legislative leaders can still demonstrate moral and political courage, and reverse their positions on same-sex marriage. Time is ticking, however.
"President Barack Obama must rue the day when he renounced initiating an inquiry on CIA behavior during the war on terror in favor of moving forward into the future."
Since the election of President Obama, much of what has been taken for racism in politics has been conflated with the policies of the Republican Party.
There are probably very few African-American men who haven’t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars.
While Antonin Scalia is winning his career-long war for more governmental accommodation of religion, he is doing it by silently consenting to the further dismantling of one of his most important decisions.