Dr. Ron Walters

One look at the record and several things become clear about the current debate over Torture which former Bush administration officials – with the help of the media – are attempting to cover up by waging a diversionary campaign against Speaker Nancy Pelosi. First, President Bush, under a weird theory which his Justice Department attempted…

In this column, I have been promoting the need for targeted policies that are directed to the deep recesses that afflict the African American community in so many areas, especially now that the financial resources appear to be at hand to make a difference. Well, right on cue a question was directed to President Barack…

I am missing something here. President Barack Obama just went to Europe and Iraq and made speeches saying that he would be deferential to Communist China, that he would meet without conditions with the leadership of Iran and that he wanted to open up a new relationship with the Islamic world. Then he went to…

One of the apparent mysteries many people ponder is how it was that union membership was responsible for virtually building the American middle class after World War II and now so many people appear to blame unions for the loss of jobs rather than the push for more profits by company bosses. The answer is…

There have been a number of fitting tributes to John Hope Franklin lauding his life work, but as a scholar, I have some different perspectives on who he was and what he meant to us. I also came to know John as a friend over the years since our first meeting at Fisk University in…

As President Barack Obama heads abroad he also heads into a difficult role as President of the United States in critical arenas. At the G20, he will be in an arena where the financial responsibilities of those countries for their former colonial territories (many of them in Africa) is at issue and where outlying pledges…

In the discussions about what to do to fix up the economic mess left by George Bush, I have come to understand why it happened when I hear the unimaginably ignorant proposals put forth by many Republicans. I wonder what planet someone could come from who says, for example, “just let the auto companies go…

I guess that it is inevitable in a context which has so many large issues that are unresolved and punishing so many people that anxiety is the culture of the ruling class as much as everyone else. You see it and hear it in the remarks of even well-meaning media commentators and analysts, to such…