By Lee A. Daniels
Now, I see the purveyors of “manufactured paranoia” think it’s much better to spread their poisonous anger – to stoke a scapegoating frenzy – among several targets at once, the better, they think, to enable them to “take back” America.

By TaRessa Stovall
“Some senators proudly put their thumbs down, and with each thumb down I felt like my heart was a tighter knot. All I could think was, ‘can I continue to live like this?’”

By The Editors
It’s deeply ironic that amidst the considerations of Black History Month and of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, some conservative pundits and legislators continue to be obsessed, at least, rhetorically speaking, with legislatively repealing the 14th Amendment.

By Lee A. Daniels
Here’s a suggestion: Whenever you hear or read someone boasting of “American exceptionalism,” — the notion that America has since its founding been uniquely ordained by God and its own moral character to lead the world – reach for your wallet. Because, intellectually speaking, someone is surely trying to pick your pocket.

By The Editors
Have you noticed that it’s getting difficult to keep up with whom to blame for America’s ills?

By The Editors
Amid the surprising display last month of productive bipartisan cooperation between the Obama administration and the Democrats and Republicans in Congress, there was one glaring failure: The Senate rejected the DREAM Act, legislation which proposed to grant citizenship at the end of a ten-year period to children of undocumented immigrants who successfully earned post-secondary degrees or entered military service.

By The Editors
Last spring Arizona’s state legislators enacted a controversial law to deter undocumented immigrants from crossing the state’s borders and punish those who have.

By The Editors
The Senate Thursday tabled legislation that would provide a clear route to citizenship for high school and college students in the U.S. illegally, raising the possibility that the push to pass it has failed.

By Lee A. Daniels
These are dark-skinned people, not … like you and me.”

There you have it. Brief and to the point. The words sound so familiar, so American.

But they weren’t spoken by an American.

By Lee A. Daniels
Two prominent Senators in the last week have said they believe the Senate should consider revoking the automatic right of American citizenship granted all children born in the United States – including children of undocumented immigrants.