Joel B. Pollak

I’ll be covering the tenth anniversary of 9/11 from New York. Thursday, the “Tribute of Light” was illuminated at Ground Zero. Amidst the political chatter, its twin beams are a reminder of what matters most.

Republican Bob Turner holds a 6-point lead over Democrat rival David Weprin, 50-44, in the race to replace Anthony Weiner in New York’s 9th congressional district, as the campaign heads into its final days ahead of the special election on

Accusations are flying in the race to fill Anthony Weiner’s vacated seat in the 9th district of New York. Republican Bob Turner, whose internal polls show a dead heat with Democrat David Weprin, claims that his staff has caught several

He has written about having sex with an underage girl, and claims he once threatened to kill a pregnant girlfriend unless she had an abortion. He claims to hate marijuana, but recommends heroin as the cure for suburban boredom. He

My Harvard classmate Lucia Brawley is an exceptionally talented actress based in LA. She was also an enthusiastic organizer for Barack Obama in Hollywood in 2008, and maxed out to his campaign. She’s volunteering to coordinate the Obama campaign in

Illinois taxpayers are given the option to donate money to charity each year when they file their state tax returns. Now, America’s most indebted state is raiding those funds to pay for wasteful spending that the Democratic governor and legislature

Michele Bachmann’s decision to vote against raising the debt ceiling, and to campaign on that stance, may turn out to be a decisive event in the race for the GOP nomination–and the presidency. Whether that was the right policy for

Fellow Friends of Barack: I join all liberals and progressives in condemning the terrorism of the Tea Party, just as we condemn terrorism in all its forms. We need a Local War On Terror (LWOT) to replace the futile Global

You might recall this extraordinary press conference on May 31, 2011, when then-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) called a reporter a “jackass” in refusing to answer questions about his (false) allegation that someone had hacked his Twitter account. Instead, he wanted

Liberals are already licking their wounds from the debt ceiling debate, wondering how it is that Republicans managed to get Democrats to abandon tax increases and shift the terms to spending cuts and entitlement reforms. Though there are many conservatives

Today, delegates to the NAACP’s 102nd annual convention are meeting to consider this year’s resolutions. Last year’s resolution condemning the Tea Party for racism was the subject of intense media coverage. This year, the Tea Party does not appear in

Tonight, President Barack Obama made good on his threat to Eric Cantor to take his case “to the American people.” The people he’s counting on most, however, are not the general public, but the small core of left-wing activists planning

A few minutes ago, NAACP officials asked me to leave the NAACP’s seminar on “civic engagement.” The seminar was listed in the official program, among several concurrent workshops. However, I was soon informed that it was “not open to media.”