What makes a terrorist?
I’ve just returned from London, where I was covering what some people are calling "the doctors’ plot"–the botched terror attacks last week on London’s West End and Glasgow’s airport. Investigators say the perpetrators were doctors, medical students and other health-care professionals, and among the many… Read More »
EmailImus and Hip-Hop
I’m no expert about rap or hip-hop–far from it. Loved Public Enemy as a young man, still have Missy Elliott’s "The Rain" on the iPod. But aside from the purchase of Kanye West’s "The College Dropout" a couple of years ago–on a friend’s recommendation that… Read More »
Don’t Feel Too Sorry for the Dukies
Mike Nifong, the North Carolina prosecutor who pursued a case of rape and kidnapping against three Duke University lacrosse players, has been found to have been reckless and deceitful in the discharge of his duties according to the state’s attorney general. He abused the power… Read More »
Sen. McCain: The Preview
We spent the day with Sen. John McCain as he campaigned in New Hampshire today. We’ll have a full report on Nightline on Monday, but the Senator had some interesting thoughts to share: ON FUNDRAISING: Sen. McCain admitted that he would fall short of fundraising… Read More »
Why is Hollywood So Liberal?
I’m out in L.A. doing an Oscar story. Yesterday, I spent some time with the young actor Ryan Gosling, who’s the dark-horse contender for the Best Actor award this year, up against some stiff competition–Forrest Whitaker, Peter O’Toole, Leonardo DiCaprio, etc. (in fact, Gosling’s such… Read More »
I Stand Corrected
I’d like to offer my sincere thanks to all of you who pointed out significant factual errors in the posting, “Is Giuliani ‘White’ Enough?”, including: The Republican Party has nominated a Catholic for national office–William Miller in 1964; the Republicans nominated Senator Charles Curtis of… Read More »
Is Giuliani “White” Enough?
There’s a lot of talk these days about Senator Barack Obama’s racial identity: "Is Obama black enough?" The question has become a kind of shorthand for a national discussion of the Illinois senator’s mixed-race, international background and what it might mean for him as a… Read More »
Reparations for GTMO?
Should the government of the United States pay reparations to those men who were falsely imprisoned for years at the American detention facility at Guantanamo Bay? It’s a serious question. This week, President Bush signed an executive order providing for trial by military commission of three… Read More »
Pelosi’s plane
"We’re Article One." That’s what former Speaker of the House Jim Wright liked to say. Wright was talking about the place of Congress in the Constitution: It comes first in the document, right after the preamble. Jim Wright, who was not a bashful man, believed… Read More »
Hate Speech: A response
Thanks to all who have weighed in on the issue of John Edwards’ "blogmaster" Amanda Marcotte. All voices and views are welcome here. The whole point of "Pushback" is to provoke a discussion, to take a look at the news and start talking about it…. Read More »
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