Pulitzer Prize Winner Cynthia Tucker | Journalist. Professor. Progressive.
Political commentary from Pulitzer Prize winner Cynthia Tucker.
Norman Rockwell is dead. So is his America.If you find that declaration sad, or possibly slanderous, you probably have fond memories of “the way we were” during a supposedly kinder and gentler time before the civil rights movement, women’s lib and cell phones. If you don’t shed tears over that America, you may have grown [...]
This is a story of redemption, a tale of obstacles overcome, statistics defied, clichés silenced. Last week , Genarlow Wilson, once judged an irredeemable sex offender, graduated from Atlanta’s Morehouse College, the small all-men’s institution that is the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr. Convicted of the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl during [...]
Can President Barack Obama put out the brush fires that are sucking all the air out of his second-term agenda? Can he stop the spread of mini-scandals that are consuming Washington? No, he cannot. The president could (unconstitutionally) shutter every Internal Revenue Service office and fire every staffer, from top-ranking executives to lowly administrative aides, [...]
Sometimes, the absurdities of an official policy or action are so clear that they need not be elucidated. Such is the case with the Obama administration’s maintenance of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, a grotesque place that only the novelist Franz Kafka, who wrote brilliantly of nightmarish milieu, could adequately describe. Last week, [...]
You might have thought that the mangled bodies of twenty dead children would have been enough to overcome the crazed obsessions of the gun lobby. You might have believed that the courage and exhortations of a former congresswoman — her career cut short and her life forever changed by a would-be assassin’s bullet — would [...]
“Wanna give me jail time and a fine Fine, Let me commit a real crime” — Jay-Z, “Open Letter” If pictures tell the tale, Beyonce and Jay-Z, so famous their last names need not be mentioned, had a marvelous time on their recent trip to Cuba, where they were trailed by starry-eyed fans, just as [...]
Apparently, there will be no ban on assault weapons. Never mind that Adam Lanza used a Bushmaster AR-15 assault-type rifle to rip apart the bodies of babies at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Forget the fact that James E. Holmes, the alleged Aurora, Col. movie theater shooter, fired, among other weapons, an AR-15. [...]
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