(Source: White House) President Obama’s State of the Union Address, according to briefings and leaks, will emphasize the president’s use of executive power to get the public’s business done despite a divided and severely deadlocked Congress. That’s a good, overdue idea. Obama has the power to make a practical difference in the lives of millions of […]

Read more

(Source: AJC) In his campaign for reelection to the Senate, Lindsey Graham is facing several challengers from his right, all of whom are complaining that Graham is not conservative enough to represent the state of South Carolina. Tea Party challenger Nancy Mace, the first female graduate of The Citadel, is complaining that Republican Lindsey Graham […]

Read more

Self-defense groups have emerged throughout Mexico in recent years. In the last week, they acquired a prominent role in the south of the state of Michoacán, where they have fought drug-trafficking gunmen out of towns in which they used to rule unobstructed by the police, extracting a heavy toll from local populations. The image of […]

Read more

Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed that one day this nation would rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Yet here’s the grim reality facing black America today: The net worth of just 400 billionaires, a group that could […]

Read more

When it comes to trade policy, President Barack Obama is mimicking the same policies he criticized when he served in the Senate. As a presidential candidate, Obama promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), recognizing the enormous loss of domestic jobs caused by its passage 20 years ago. He sure hasn’t done […]

Read more