The GOP Should Kiss Gay-Bashing Goodbye Political conventions are memorable not only for what the party grandees say, but for what they leave out. What was noticeably absent from last week’s Republican gabfest? Gay-bashing. This is not an insignificant development for Republicans. In 2004, gays featured prominently at the Republicans’ convention and in their rhetoric. In February of that year, President...
South Africa's Immigrant Shame Viewing the horrific images out of Johannesburg last week, one could be forgiven for mistaking them for the harrowing photographs that graced newspaper front pages in the 1980s. Those were the years of “Total Onslaught,” when the African National Congress (ANC) encouraged residents of black townships to fight white rule. Blacks suspected of collaborating with...