With days to go until the presidential inauguration, the hope for the traditionally sedate transition between the old and new administrations has been anything but.
When he ran for President, Barack Obama promoted \”we are not red states or blue states, but the United States.\” He didn’t mean it.
There is something tragic about the civils rights movement—the very fact that it was needed in the first place. Why did it have to be such a big deal to give Blacks the right to vote? By today’s standards, it seems downright absurd to deny Blacks, or anyone else for that matter, this fundamental right.
We represent a broad constituency of scholars of Jewish studies committed to the democratic values that gave rise to the United States of America. We are alarmed by the prospect that new administration may erode these values and are particularly troubled by a number of President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed appointments. We write you today to register our concern about Mr. David Friedman’s nomination as our country’s Ambassador to the State of Israel.
Many people are saying they won’t be watching the inauguration on TV.
I write to you out of respect for the work you’ve done in fighting intolerance, bigotry, and specifically anti-Semitism in Los Angeles and in this country.
Donald Trump upset the apple cart, pulling off a victory in the Electoral College by sweeping the Rust Belt states.
Newsflash: I didn’t want Donald J. Trump to be president.
If you ask a healthy man, “Does a man need a woman to lead a fulfilling life?” he most likely will answer in the affirmative.
The first time Shirley and Art Sotloff played for me the recording in which their son, my childhood friend Steven, pleaded with them to try to save him from execution by ISIS, his mother uttered words I will never forget.
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