Politics

December 20, 2011
By:
DuWayne Smith

Indian Country Today Media Network staff recently posted

December 14, 2011
By:
Bill Lomax

In the Carcieri v. Salazar decision, the Supreme Court stood 75 years of policy and practice on its head.

December 12, 2011
By:
Peter d'Errico

England was once so proud of its colonial regime that it boasted, "The sun never sets on the British empire." Today, colonialism is a bad word. It is fashionable to say we live in a 'post-colonial' world.

December 10, 2011
By:
Steve Russell

Last year, in the ironically named Citizens United case, the U.S.

December 08, 2011
By:
Ray Halbritter

An earlier version of this commentary first appeared in The Daily Caller.

December 08, 2011
By:
Mark Trahant

We know democracy’s slogan: “Elections matter.” Or if that doesn’t work, draw on so many other oft-repeated phrases that make up the melodies in our politics.

December 06, 2011
By:
Steven Newcomb

On December 1, the United States Senate approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA/S. 1867) which includes a provision that would approve the indefinite military detention of anyone, including U.S. citizens, “under the law of war without trial.”

December 05, 2011
By:
William Anderson

I think it’s fair to say that most of the Washington, D.C., politicians attacking clean-air safeguards don’t have the same view out their front windows as the fa

December 03, 2011
By:
Lise Balk King

On Wednesday June 11, 2008, all of Canada was asked to take pause to participate in an unprecedented national event.

December 02, 2011
By:
Charles Rangel

As we gathered around the table with our loved ones for Thanksgiving, we counted our blessings despite the many challenges we are facing as a nation. We have experienced many economic and social plights in our history but have always prevailed.

December 01, 2011
By:
Tex G. Hall

When Columbus got lost in America, he found healthy, thriving native peoples. Within 100 years, the civilizations he first met were decimated. In North America, north of Mexico, the pre-Columbian population has been estimated at 18 million people.

November 30, 2011
By:
Chuck Trimble

In a letter to the editor of the Syracuse (New York) Post-Standard newspaper, attorney Carrie E.

November 29, 2011
By:
Steve Russell

I punched the TV button so hard that in the old days I would have twisted the dial right off, and went looking for cousin Ray Sixkiller.

November 29, 2011
By:
Mark Trahant

Last December hundreds of American Indian and Alaska Native leaders traveled to Washington, D.C. for the second White House Tribal Nations Conference.

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