I trusted the polls because I believed that men on the Left were with us in this struggle, but in the end, too many left us to vote for a racist, sexist, xenophobic, hyper-masculine demagogue. This was not a victory on the Right, but a failure of the Left.
Race & Racism
Clinton won the first debate last night, according to scientific polls, focus groups, and my Grandma Lois. Trump should have won…
Many of my progressive friends are panicking about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the White House. This post lays…
It’s two days before Christmas, and many friends and family members are pulling their hair out with last-minute shopping as they brave the malls…
Last summer, I broke up a fight between two men near my Los Angeles home, and last night I stood…
Tower Heist (2011) the new movie starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, is the latest installment in blatantly racist movie-making. It is embarassing for Hollywood and its “critics” to continue to be so ignorant.
A new study from the Pew Research Center reports staggering gaps in median wealth–a person’s accumulated assets minus her debt–between…
There is no way to do justice to “the people” of New Orleans in a blog post, a book, or even a thousand books, and that is not my goal here. Instead, I will introduce a few of the people I have come to love while living and working part of each year in New Orleans since Katrina.
Only two main characters in the large ensemble cast are women, and none of the Transformers (alien robots for the uninitiated) are female. And the two female characters are so offensive – an unmitigated object and a caricatured mockery of female leadership – that none might have been better.
“Let’s just say, I don’t know a little girl who didn’t lie to her daddy.”