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In the slow motion destruction of Susan G. Komen, VP Karen Handel may be the only one who got what she really wanted.

As reported in the New York Daily News, I have issued a formal request to Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights to co-host a film screening of the documentary Battle for Brooklyn.

Newt Gingrich won South Carolina’s Republican primary by appealing to religiosity, economic populism and racial resentment. 

Although it would still be a reckless man who’d bet against Rupert Murdoch, the odds against James Murdoch taking a fall just got a little shorter.

Faith, morality and “family values” are back now that the Republican primary has moved south. 

Making a bid for the state's conservative vote, Santorum speaks about political issues as matters of theology.

George Romney marched with Dr. King and refused to back Republicans who opposed civil rights. Mitt Romney has yet to call out racially charged comments by his GOP foes and has actually embraced some of the coded language.

 Paul learned his lesson a long time ago: third-party bids do more harm than good. 

In 1998, a draft-day trade started the NBA down a dramatically different road. It was also a “canary in the coal mine” for our country.

Alterman on Israel and Steve Tyrell, Reed on the Iraq War.