Published: mic (August 12, 2013)
While Sarah Palin rarely provokes anything more than justified contempt among the left, her recent announcement that she is on “Team Rand” is as good a cause as any for liberals to remind themselves of why the ongoing feud between the libertarian-leaning Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
Published: mic (July 20, 2013)
She was a pioneer for female journalists, an old-fashioned shoe-leather reporter, an astute observer of Washington’s grimy, smarmy underbelly who had personally interrogated every president since John F. Kennedy. When Stephen Colbert used the third act of his legendary 2006 White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech to pay her a tongue-in-cheek tribute, few in the press corps doubted that the honor was well deserved.... Read Original Article
Published: mic (June 18, 2013), Live Interview with Huffington Post (June 19, 2013)
Our commander-in-chief had a lot to say during Monday night’s interview with Charlie Rose, but CNN aptly summed it up in four words:
“I’m no Dick Cheney.”
If I may, Mr. President, I’d like to respond to that claim with a question I bet all of your supporters (many of them now erstwhile supporters) are asking:
“Yes, but why the hell aren’t you Barack Obama?”
Published: mic (March 10, 2013)
To anyone who may doubt the appalling nature of the late Hugo Chavez’s mistreatment of his nation’s Jewish community, it’s worth noting that communist dictators are generally a pretty vile bunch. As such, it should go without saying that when one Marxist authoritarian feels compelled to call out another one on a humanitarian flaw, decent people everywhere should take notice.
Published: The Morning Call (April 30, 2012), PolicyMic (April 30, 2012), CNN (April 30, 2012)
With one of Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievements on the Supreme Court chopping block and his re-election bid against Mitt Romney shaping up into a close race, many conservative pundits are claiming the president’s legacy is in peril.... Read Original Article
Published: PolicyMic (March 27, 2012)
Of all my experiences as a graduate student, none can match the time I spent as a teaching assistant for Said Samatar. A professor of African History at Rutgers University-Newark, Samatar is the kind of scholar every up-and-coming aspires, or at least should aspire, to emulate: Intelligent, accessible, puckishly funny (he liked to prepare students for tests by quoting Dante: “Abandon all hope ye who enter here”), and armed with a biography that makes one pause before whining about your own petty travails.... Read Original Article