For Bush administration, kicking ass meant giving the green light to CIA to build black-site prisons around the world, while Attorney General John Ashcroft elaborated new legal constructs to try to skirt anti-torture laws. ..…

As a Democrat and the country’s first Black president, Obama has much more leeway to implement a conservative agenda than the Bush administration did, under the guise of promoting equity and civil rights. ..…

IT's no surprise to readers of this magazine that, in election race in. ..…