Folks on the far right are confused. The things President Obama is responsible for – like doubling down on the Bush policies – they refuse hold him accountable for. But right wingers steadily berate Obama for...

Many of the prisoners at Guantanamo are starving themselves. In a New York Times op-ed, a prisoner at the detention facility wrote, “I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been...

Morehouse College President John S. Wilson is in hot water with some of  alumni over his decision to rescind an invitation to alumnus Rev. Dr. Kevin R. Johnson of Bright Hope Baptist Church in Philadelphia. At issue is w...

America is engaged in a holy war but it’s not the one you think. It’s not a war between secularists and the right wing American zealots, but between Shiites and Sunnis. In the Muslim holy war, American policy...

Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN)  has never been a favorite of  Fox News, mostly because Ellison took his oath of office on a Koran and not the Bible. But the disdain Fox News held for Rep. Ellison surely edged up after ...

In 2011 The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill presented a damning indictment of the CIA’s use of secret prisons in Somalia. The prisoners housed at the CIA facility, located underneath Somalia’s National Security Agenc...