Monica Potts

Even as the housing market gets weaker, Fannie Mae has decided to get incredibly tough on homeowners who walk away from their mortgages even if they can’t afford to pay. The mortgage giant plans to sue those homeowners and would also prevent them from getting new home loans for seven years. Critics are calling that […]

It’s worth remembering the people who can’t retreat to their air-conditioned havens on a day like today. In that spirit comes an invitation from United Farm Workers for legal residents and citizens looking for work to apply for agricultural jobs. As Wonk Room points out, there will likely be few takers. In pointing out how […]

Dale Peterson, who wanted to tough-talk and scold Alabamans into voting for him as the state’s agriculture commissioner, is back with another of his cowboy-hat-wearing, gun-wielding ads, this time to endorse his former opponent, John McMillan. Apropos Peterson’s cowboy persona, Racialicious has a great piece up about the American cowboy myth. It points out what […]

Predictably, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker went after Jessica Valenti for explaining why Sarah Palin and conservative women like her can’t call themselves feminists — even if they employ some feminist language to promote their conservative values. Parker says Valenti’s argument shows that today’s feminists enforce a sort of orthodoxy that doesn’t let women reach […]

The Huffington Post has a good story today on just how difficult it will be to determine who has a legitimate claim against BP. The story discusses one woman who works with local hospitals to recruit new doctors and places about 12 doctors a year. One has backed out since the oil spill. Though it’s […]

A new study supports research from 2003 showing just how culturally biased the SAT is against African American students, for whom the Reading score was 99 points behind the average for white students. The research shows just how that might be as well: The African American students performed worse on the questions the test deems […]

President Obama has yet to spend a Father’s Day not talking about the idea of fatherhood in general, his own absent father, and his efforts to strive to be a good father to his two daughters despite the lack of a model in his own life. Yesterday was no exception; he had a barbecue with […]

When I argued yesterday that cops are allowed to punch people, even women, in the course of an arrest, I failed to convince Latoya Peterson at Racialicious, who writes: Just because the officer has the discretion to do something, it doesn’t mean that’s the tactic that should be employed. If their own department “has concerns,” […]