America the Vulnerable

America the Vulnerable

Violent right-wing extremism is surging, but the Department of Homeland Security is scaling back intelligence units that might catch the next Timothy McVeigh before it’s too late.

In Glenn Beck’s Crosshairs: Interview with Frances Fox Piven

In Glenn Beck’s Crosshairs: Interview with Frances Fox Piven

Glenn Beck has made a point of aggressively singling out Frances Fox Piven, professor of political science and sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, as especially dangerous to American life and liberty. In this interview, she comments on the attacks and what they say about the current state of American democracy.

Mosque of Liberty

That America brings together peoples from all parts of the world and aspires to treats everyone as an equal is our strength and our message to the world.

A Bitter Taste of Racial Discrimination

A Bitter Taste of Racial Discrimination

While pundits and politicos were vilifying Shirley Sherrod for an act of discrimination that didn’t occur, Senate Republicans cut the payments for thousands of official acts of actual discrimination against African-American farmers.