Commentaries/Opinions

In a recent issue of The Nation, Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel was effusive in her praise of Public Advocate Bill de Blasio’s plan to combat income inequality.

The “Old Gray Lady,” The New York Times, appears to be miffed that it was not the recipient of the leaks from whistleblower Edward Snowden, now on the run in Hong Kong and promising to fight extradition.

By Robert Borosage

Can the economy recover if workers don’t? Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke yesterday suggested as much, but investors were clearly skittish. Bernanke announced that while the Fed would continue its extraordinary measures to prop up the economy, the end might be in sight.

By Carl Hart (Alternet)
The straight glass pipe filled with ethereal white smoke. It was thick enough to see that it could be a good hit, but it still had the wispy quality that distinguishes crack cocaine smoke from cigarette or marijuana smoke.

By Joshua DuBois

There is an easy way to meet Joe Jones, and a hard way. Let’s start with the easy way. If you and I were at a cocktail party, I’d introduce you to a tall, bald, black man, standing a shoulder above most everybody else.

Saving Black boys is a cultural imperative for the Black community.

Pro-gun activists may have planned to boldly celebrate the fifth anniversary of Richard Heller’s successful gun rights case. However, a murder spree in Santa Monica and George Zimmerman’s murder trial are over-shadowing those plans.