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Congratulations, Alan. Inflation has slowed. You and your colleagues at the Fed seem to have made a preemptive strike against rising prices. But Alan, I’ve got to tell you: Jobs and wages are slowing, too. The jobs recovery barely got off the ground before it fizzled. Only 112,000 payroll jobs were created in June — […]

Two harrowing hours of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 drew to a close, and we watched as George W. Bush’s brain, on display in Tennessee, got lost in the convolutions of an old axiom: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” That’s what Bush meant to say; but the logic of […]

Florida. Some good news for John Kerry in last week’s American Research Group poll of likely Florida voters, which gave him a 47-44-3 lead, the largest ARG has ever registered for Kerry in the Sunshine State. Factoring Nader out leaves Kerry with a slightly stronger 49-45 lead. Even better, Kerry has now reached 100 percent […]

If conventional wisdom is to be believed, John Kerry has a religion problem — namely, that Americans think he’s insufficiently devout. Every pundit in America has advice for Kerry on how to appeal to religious audiences on the trail and how to make use of his own Catholic faith — but should he listen? Ayelish […]

Just before I left for South Africa, my aunt in California submitted a request. “Bring me back a piece of the motherland,” she said, after we talked about my three-month trip to Cape Town to write my dissertation on a South African artist. For many older African Americans, visiting Africa is a way of connecting […]

It’s a sad state of affairs when a lawmaker has to introduce a bill prohibiting other lawmakers from hacking into one another’s computer files, bribing other members on the House floor, or calling the Capitol police to have another member removed from a room. But that’s exactly what legislation being introduced this week by Rep. […]

The proposal forthcoming from the 9-11 Commission to create a Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to oversee all of the federal government’s intelligence activities will be no panacea to solve all the problems that have plagued the American intelligence community for years. Surely, though, it will be a step in the right direction. That the […]

On a recent episode of Chappelle’s Show, (Tuesdays, 10 and 10:30pm, Comedy Central) its star and host, Dave Chappelle, performed a sketch as a black George Bush (accompanied by, among others, comedian Jamie Foxx as Tony Blair and hip-hop icon Mos Def in place of then-CIA chief George Tenet). In Chappelle’s skin, Bush is a […]

Hey John, Lemme break it down for you. It’s not that the NAACP isn’t great. It is. And Bush done made a stupid move. But don’t get too comfortable. You’re preaching to the choir. Black folks — at least ones from the civil-rights generation — would walk across broken glass barefoot to vote for a […]

If conventional wisdom is to be believed, John Kerry has a religion problem — namely, that Americans think he’s insufficiently devout. Every pundit in America has advice for Kerry on how to appeal to religious audiences on the trail and how to make use of his own Catholic faith — but should he listen? Ayelish […]