Julianne Hing at RaceWire has a strong piece reminding us that Barack Obama was never, ever going to be a progressive messiah, and that it was and is our job as citizens and activists to end the war in Afghanistan and to inject sanity and the public...

Lisa Erdman, a friend of mine working on her doctorate at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland, has created and placed the above ad as part of her research. She explains: An advert for my fictitious medical drug, Jesurex®, has been...

In the "change is good" department, here is a story a white friend of mine recently told me. Her adolescent daughter had gone, with a black friend, to a service at a big, venerable black church led by a well-known pastor. My friend, comparing this...

So I'm walking out of a restaurant, and the older couple just ahead of me is with a little girl who looks to be about six years old, maybe their granddaughter. They're in the middle of a conversation. The little girl says to the woman, "But you said we...