Obama, Osama and MLK
The frenzy over a "fake" King quote reveals a desire to outsource our moral decision-making to someone else
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:04 PM UTC 80Politics Osama Bin Laden, Barack Obama
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Politics Osama Bin Laden, Barack Obama
Penn Jillette explains the fake Martin Luther King Jr.: “I made a mistake”
Updated: The magician responds to Salon about his inaccurate Osama tweet -- and the furor that resulted
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 1:20 PM UTC 40Entertainment Twitter, Celebrity
Haley Barbour’s Martin Luther King problem
The Mississippi governor claimed he saw King speak in 1962 -- but the historical record doesn't match his account
Monday, Feb 28, 2011 3:25 PM UTC 16Politics 2012 Elections, Haley Barbour
America’s most persecuted minority group: Republicans
On this Martin Luther King Day, spare a thought for America's forgotten minority: Comfortable white conservatives
Monday, Jan 17, 2011 9:01 PM UTC 72Politics Republican Party, War Room
Jesse Helms and MLK
Remembering when the right-wing North Carolinian tried to filibuster the holiday we celebrate today
Monday, Jan 17, 2011 4:01 PM UTC 58Politics Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King III to pay tribute to father
Eldest son of Martin Luther King will address a crowd at his father's old church on this holiday's 25th anniversary
Monday, Jan 17, 2011 12:44 PM UTCNews Martin Luther King, Jr.
Obama official: MLK would love our wars!
A top Pentagon official says the antiwar civil rights leader would support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 10:56 PM UTC 73Politics Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beck lifts from Obama 2008 stump speech
Tea Party spokesman re-appropriates the President's rhetoric for conservative "Restoring Honor" march on Washington
Saturday, Aug 28, 2010 5:36 PM UTC 23News Glenn Beck
Sarah Palin: Support MLK Jr., back Tea Party
Former Alaska Governor speaks on the anniversary of Dr. King's "Dream," speech, tells audience to "restore America"
Saturday, Aug 28, 2010 3:27 PM UTC 27News Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck’s revisionist, apolitical history
He venerates Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and others -- but for a thoroughly phony reason
Friday, Aug 27, 2010 12:30 PM UTC 49Politics Glenn Beck, War Room
Hey, Glenn Beck, I was at the March on Washington
The "Restoring Honor" parade tarnishes an event whose shared humanity was unlike anything I've felt before or since
Thursday, Aug 26, 2010 11:01 PM UTC 81Life Civil rights movement
Beck has a scheme
Promote Palin at an event he says isn't political, on a day he says he didn't know was the MLK speech anniversary
Wednesday, Aug 25, 2010 10:26 PM UTC 197Politics Glenn Beck
The liberal case against race-based affirmative action
Why Sen. James Webb is right to advocate colorblind public policy
Tuesday, Aug 24, 2010 11:01 AM UTC 65News Race, Education
Get your hands off MLK, Glenn Beck
Conservative pundits say they're protecting the legacy of our civil rights heroes. Little do they know...
Monday, Jul 26, 2010 12:30 PM UTC 56All Salon Civil rights movement
“Hellhound on His Trail”: The creep who killed MLK
The seedy true-crime story of how James Earl Ray assassinated a great American hero
Sunday, Apr 18, 2010 11:01 PM UTC 68Entertainment What to Read, American History
Jesse Helms is not dead
His politics and his methods live on -- among liberals as well as conservatives.
Friday, Jul 11, 2008 11:01 AM UTC 59All Salon Republican Party, Immigration
How 1968 changed Hillary
The former Goldwater Girl became a member of the Democratic Party's new vanguard. But that's not how many liberals see her today.
Tuesday, Apr 8, 2008 11:13 AM UTC 135News 2008 Elections
Why I defend “terrorists”
An open letter to Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, from a lawyer representing five men at Guant
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 7:00 PM UTC 80All Salon Guantanamo
“Dr. Meth King”?
President Bush honors MLK. Or at least tried to.
Thursday, Nov 16, 2006 8:43 PM UTCPolitics Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unquiet Americans
Greil Marcus searches for the prophetic voices of America and finds them in Abraham Lincoln, David Lynch and Riot Grrrl bands of the '90s.
Thursday, Oct 12, 2006 12:00 PM UTCEntertainment Martin Luther King, Jr., Books
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