A report out today suggests that the intense anger about President Barack Obama from conservative Republicans is not race-based, it’s ideological. The report was based on focus groups conducted by Democracy Corps (run by James Carville and Stan Greenberg) and analyzed by…
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SO NOW, in the waning days of the campaign, here is the alleged storyline: Those polls that show Barack Obama leading in the race against John McCain for president? Even widening his lead? Those polls are warped.…
It seems that no matter how many times “the race issue” seems to fade to the background of this campaign, it doesn’t stay there for long. Recurring controversies about race are keeping the issue front and center in the contest…
The UK blog Harry’s Place is being sued by Hamas — or at least Hamas’ British sister organization, the British Muslim Initiative — for translating into English a story on al-Jazeera’s Arabic-language website.
Considering I myself recently translated a story from al-Jazeera and…
The Associated Press is reporting that black drivers are more likely to be stopped by police in Missouri than are white drivers, and minorities are twice as likely to have to be searched.
From the story: “Black drivers are more likely…
