Left, Behind on Obama’s Warren Strategy
Expecting the not-yet-commander-in-chief to attend to each of my parochial concerns is a little, well, precious.
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Is Barack the Hip-Hop Panacea?
Hip-Hop hater and black conservative Stanley Crouch has linked criticism of hip-hop culture to the ascendancy of Barack Obama. But is it true?
Read MorePriests in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Wafers
A priest in South Carolina tells parishioners to skip communion if they voted for Obama.
Read MoreBarack Hussein Obama and a Post-Religious America
The President-Elect’s names, all three of them, reveal a complexity of religious engagement that might move us beyond a tribal sense of religion.
Read MoreSometimes You Can’t Say a Word
For a people who bear the burden of slavery, legalized apartheid and the continued vestiges of both, for a moment the elusive goal of feeling fully part of America’s democratic project was realized.
Read MoreAmerica Elects its Second Muslim President in Barack Obama
Reflections of an American Muslim sometimes Democrat…
Read MoreVideo: “[Obama] Ain’t Got No Campaign, They Got a Movement Goin'”
Is the Obama campaign a candidacy or a movement? Civil Rights leaders in Birmingham talk about the meaning of the Obama campaign.
Read MoreC’mon Muslim Myth Believers! Just Admit It!
A mole in the Good Ol’ Boy network reveals that many still buy into the myth that Obama’s a Muslim—particularly in Texas.
Read MoreBuddhists Split b/w McCain & Obama
Immigrant Buddhists tend to be refugees from Communist regimes and lean conservative.
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Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely
After decades of right-wing religious domination, America faces a moment of truth not unlike the Apollo 8 astronauts faced on their first trip around the moon.
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