In the Pennsylvania town of Shenandoah last spring, prosecutors alleged that Luis Ramirez, an undocumented Latino immigrant from Mexico, was beaten to death in 2008 because of his race. The defense attorneys argued that Mr.

CNBC Reporter Darren Rovell thinks that a recent sports headline "American Wins First NYC Marathon since 1982" isn't as "good as it sounds."   Why?  Because Mr. Rovell doesn't think that Mebrathom Keflezighi, the 2009 NYC Marathon winner, is American enough to be described as such.   He says that Mr.

We thank my colleague Mark Zecca, a former staffer for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, for sharing this personal account of Senator Kennedy's extraordinary contributions to the advancement of human rights:  

Between 60 million and 107 million women and girls are missing around the world – according to studies quoted by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn in their shocking, yet remarkably hopeful, lead article, Saving the World’s Women, about the oppression of women worldwide in the August 23, 2009 New York Times Magazine.  These studies compare normal ratios of births against the current population.  In China, for example, there are 107 males for every 100 females a

In a four-way race for New York City Controller, Councilperson John Liu is launching a TV ad that says he helped catch the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) using two sets of books in 2003 to justify a fare hike.  As chairperson of the Transportation Committee, he got former MTA executive director Katherine Lapp to admit that MTA was using a numbers game.  

My dad died from "complications associated" with Stage IV lung cancer, which, to me, means that the crap treatment he got from the local county hospital made him sicker than he already was.  I flirted with the notion of filing a lawsuit, but concluded it would not be worth the effort -- especially since the impetus for our claims would be that the attending pulmonologist lacked manners and tuned out second opinions. 

When I walked into the ING coffee shop this morning and looked up to see the CNN “news reports” about the flap over President Obama’s comments regarding Professor Gates’s arrest by the Cambridge police, I was reminded once again how much the quality of journalism has  generally declined during the last decade -- and how it has filled the American public’s brain with half-baked sound bites and quarter-truths.   What makes Made-For-TV journalism so dangerous is that there are a lot of people out there wh