Dear In These Times reader,
Seven months after the inauguration of Barack Obama, race remains a potent and divisive force in American life and politics. Just ask Sonia Sotomayor or Henry Louis Gates, Jr. For our latest issue's cover story, Senior Editor Salim Muwakkil parses America's first "post-racial" president, and finds Obama barely balancing the often divergent expectations of white and black Americans.
Read "The Post-Racial President" now.
For headlines at Working In These Times, our new blog dedicated to workers' rights and labor issues, go here. To subscribe to the new site's RSS feed, click here.
NEWS and FEATURES
The Big Green Apple: It’s easy being green in NYC.
Dixie Media Versus Unions: A new book reveals how Southern media have strengthened the region’s corporatocracy.
The ‘Post-Racial’ President: Barack Obama navigates a world where color still matters.
Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Ten years after Chavez’s election, the movement he inspired remains divided over goals and strategies.
Taming Wall Street Cowboys: A new advocacy group heads to Capitol Hill to counter financial industry lobbyists hungry for deregulation.
20 Questions With Carmen Van Kerckhove: Racialicious.com founder Carmen Van Kerckhove on what annoys her about mainstream media, being biracial and why Geraldine Ferraro is disappointing.
COMMENTARY
Freedom from Fear: David Sirota on the (town hall forum) guns of August: "Citing the Second Amendment and the maniacal rhetoric of conservative media firebrands, a handful of violence-threatening protesters aims to make the rest of us afraid to speak out."
Ignoring Outrage, Obama Set to Expand Pentagon Presence in Colombia: A deal between Colombia ad the Obama administration for seven new U.S. military bases--or, "Forward Operating Locations"--in the South American country is moving forward.
Robert Novak Was a Liar: An un-fond remembrance of Robert Novak, the conservative columnist who publicly outed Valerie Plame as a CIA officer in 2003.
Jeremy Gantz, Web editor