Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP, will deliver a keynote address on the state of education reform in the United States.

It is precisely because the tea party has so much in common with the politics of middle America that it will not disappear after election day, and it is now likely to exert a growing and powerful influence on the Republican party and its candidates.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's campaign against President George W. Bush isn't new. It has been relentless, starting even before he was elected.

Following a defeat in Citizens United, the Obama administration is making an unprecedented assault on free speech through a proposed executive order requiring federal bidders to disclose their political giving during the previous two years.

Harshest political rhetoric from Bond, who says that new administration almost daily separates and divides.

Senators wavering on the Ashcroft nomination will be targeted as anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-woman, and pro-gun, and most Democrats will play along; will the Republicans hold?