Hearing that Richard Blanco had been chosen to write a poem for President Obama’s second inauguration reconfirmed for me why this president will be remembered as a transformative leader. Blanco is a Cuban-American gay poet. His work journals the cross-cultural experiences of two minority groups — the LGBT and Latino communities — at a time […]
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America’s party
It is a tradition, this extravagant inauguration of an American president. And however much we liberals enjoy finding reasons to scold (The war! The tsunami!), George Bush is not the first president to hold a bunch of glitzy do’s during times of great stress and tragedy. So go ahead, if you’re in the mood […]
