Minority areas hit hardest by eminent domain
A father and son who operate a nonprofit boxing gym for kids in suburban San Diego are fighting their town for the right to stay where they are. Ultimately, their...
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Giving soft bigotry a break
Does ignorance about race make you a racist? That boiling question bubbles at the heart of the controversy that Fox News star Bill O'Reilly's kicked up with his poorly received...
Ahmadinejad’s real agenda
Isn't it ironic? Some of the same people who opposed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia University on Monday usually criticize political correctness that suppresses free speech. Everybody wants...
Injustice is bigger than Jena 6
We black Americans seem to need a major event or outrage every so often that revives our mass energies in ways that remind of us the 1960s civil rights movement....
Ideally, vision of education bests politics
I love idealists. They offer us a vision of how things might be if our lawmakers truly lived up to our dreams. Yet, like overzealous soldiers in combat, they sometimes...
Snow scrapes with reporters over, other battles remain
When big-shot Washington figures say they're abruptly leaving their job to spend more time with their families, you have good reason to roll your eyes and say cynically, "Yeah. Right."...
Candidate who feels right has winning chance
Think Hollywood stars are too trivial to think about in these boiling-hot political times? Consider this: The most talked about political events since Labor Day, a time when voters supposedly...
What the Duke lacrosse case has taught us
When Mike Nifong reported to jail Friday to serve a 24-hour sentence in Durham, N.C., a small band of die-hard supporters carried signs that said, "We believe in your integrity...
Baggy-pants bans too little, too late
Back in the 1970s there was an off-beat theory going around that the high-heeled platform shoes for men that were all the rage back then were actually a police plot....
Time to trim tubby torsos
Americans are too fat and getting fatter, a new study shows. I'm one of them. I'm not cool with that, but some people are cool with their supersize weight. Some...