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As promised, President Obama has donated the money he was awarded from his Nobel Peace Prize to charity. The White House released a list of the charities chosen by the President to receive funds from the $1.4 million award money. See below for the full list. The biggest awardees were Fisher House, to provide housing…

My playwright friend Wajahat Ali writes about the Jihad Jane case, in the broader context of why the various cartoon depictions of the Prophet SAW are such a provocation to muslims. Wajahat affirms, but also puts into context, the imperative of free artistic expression, invoking his own experience writing a play about muslim characters: As…

The public option is almost assuredly not going to be in the final package for health reform, and that’s a good thing because it’s existence imperils passage of this historic and incredibly progressive legislation. It represents a huge – and long overdue – leftwards shift for American social policy, despite the public option’s absence. And…

Here in a nutshell is why ethnic profiling is so fundamentally flawed as a means of protecting against terrorism: A petite, blond-haired, blue-eyed high school dropout who allegedly used the nickname JihadJane was identified Tuesday as an alleged terrorist intent on recruiting others to her cause, as federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges that could send…
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