Op-Ed

Lupe Fiasco, performing at the 2011 Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest. Fiasco appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show, where he criticized President Obama's policies, leaving O'Reilly to defend the president. (Photo: eastscene) …

Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corp., during an interview in his office in New York on Thursday, May 3, 2007. (Photo: James Estrin / The New …

Black America is in crisis. In my neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, families live in small apartments next to empty boarded-up buildings. Cops arrest people at random to meet their quotas. …

Washington - Hours before the negotiations on the debt limit between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner collapsed, political reporters received a missive from Mitt Romney's presidential campaign …

Will Rogers said that when Congress is in session, the public gets the same panicky feeling as "when the baby gets hold of a hammer." Rogers' observation …

How should music rank among the ever-growing list of time-tested nonviolent methods such as boycotts, marches, strikes, sit-ins, and vigils?

When news began to unfold on Friday of the terror attacks in Norway that has left more than 90 dead, many blogs and Twitter accounts immediately lit up with …

Tourists look on as members of the protest group Avaaz hold an anti-Rupert Murdoch demonstration outside Parliament in London, on July 19, 2011. (Photo: Andrew Testa / The New …

On a recent trip to Israel, I visited a school in Sderot featuring bunkers in the playground. I asked the principal what she thought about her government: “Things are …

Bertha G. Milliard, 94, with nurse Ruth Collins, a nurse, during a home-care visit in Fort Fairfield, Maine, in November 2009. (Photo: Craig Dilger / The New York Times) …