Is NAACP relevant in a Barack Obama age?
Every journalist should be required to endure the bracing experience of being "covered." Nothing is more instructive for us journos than to put ourselves and our views in the hands...
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For lack of a better term
Washington Democrats appear to be falling back on an old reliable answer to the "public option" dispute in their health-care plans: When you can't change the issue, change what you...
Palin plays the victim and reaps the rewards
Poor put-upon Sarah Palin. As questions swirled around her sudden announcement that she will resign as Alaska's governor, it took no more than a day for her to wrap herself...
Fixing the gun loophole
For gun purchasers, should "no fly" mean "no buy?" People on the government's terrorist watch list tried to buy guns almost 1,000 times in the last five years, a federal...
The case against Sotomayor leaves a fan wondering
You'd have to have a heart of stone to feel unsympathetic to Frank Ricci. Like his fellow New Haven, Conn., firefighters, he studied rigorously for the city's promotion exam to...
Jackson’s creative self-destruction
Which was your favorite Michael Jackson? Not your favorite Michael Jackson song, but your favorite Michael? There were so many of him. News that the "King of Pop" had died...
Unraveling our health-care debate
As debate over President Barack Obama's health-care proposals kicks off, his opponents are lining up in a predictable way. On one side, conservatives call Obama a "socialist." On the other...
Apology, at last, but with an escape clause
What if Congress apologized for slavery and nobody cared? The Senate on Thursday followed the House in voting to apologize for slavery and the Jim Crow segregation that followed it....
In defense of same-sex marriage
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, Groucho Marx once said, "marriage does." If so, it's not so surprising that the opposing attorneys in the 2000 Bush vs. Gore case are now...
Combat crazy talk with dose of sanity
What is it about President Barack Obama that drives some people crazy? Take, for example, his former pastor. Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. who's back in the news. On Thursday, Wright...