Has the tea party peaked?
Tea party supporters — the movement is too proudly unstructured to have card-carrying "members" — had better savor this moment. They've had an exciting ride so far, but their political...
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Has the tea party peaked?
Tea party supporters — the movement is too proudly unstructured to have card-carrying "members" — had better savor this moment. They've had an exciting ride so far, but their political...
Making black families matter
Forty-five years ago this summer a report on serious declines in traditional black American family life leaked out of President Lyndon Johnson's Labor Department and exploded into controversy. We've been...
When words do not get out
I was honored and, although it is not an easy emotion for me, humbled to receive the American Institute for Stuttering leadership award, despite the initial impulse I felt to...
GOP’s Obama vs. the real one
Don't count Bobby Jindal out. The Louisiana governor, touted as "the Republican Obama" before his first big national speech flopped, is rising again, strong enough this time to go toe-to-toe...
The tea party vs. common sense
Ah, Scotty, the tea party hardly knew ya. After he won the late Ted Kennedy's seat earlier this year and broke the Democrats' lock on the Senate, Scott Brown was...
Rand Paul: Radical Ayn Rand rookie
I was a little disappointed to hear that Rand Paul was not named after Ayn Rand. It would have made sense for his famously libertarian dad, Republican U.S. Rep. Ron...
Tea partiers taking pages from New Left
In the early 1960s, children of the baby boom sparked a new social-political movement to take on the Establishment, tackle poverty, bring world peace and get "government," in the form...
Ethnic studies can unite us
Before being accused of racism for opposing his state's ethnic studies classes, Tom Horne, Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, quickly gives credit to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Or,...
Kagan joins show she criticized
Elena Kagan probably will be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, if she can resist the temptation to follow her own advice. Her advice was offered in a 1995 book...