New media make old rules covering fairness obsolete
Like witch doctors conjuring up zombies in a bad B-movie, certain members of Congress are trying to bring the Fairness Doctrine back from the grave. Forget it, folks. Changing times...
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How riots changed us
Forty years later, residents of Newark, N.J., and Detroit still disagree as to whether the historic July disturbances in their cities should be remembered as "riots" or "rebellions." Let's split...
Leaving children behind, again
The No Child Left Behind Act is leaving too many children behind. Why? Maybe we're setting our standards too high. That startling possibility comes from two University of Chicago economists...
Funeral or not, it takes time to bury bad words
Julian Bond ought to have a word with Don Imus: "Thanks." Bond, the national board chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said as much when...
Obama tiptoes through nation’s racial minefield
Polls about Sen. Barack Obama's presidential chances remind me of "Putney Swope," the brazenly irreverent 1969 comedy about the first black man to be elected the head of a major...
Beating back the myths of Libby-gate
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions," the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a scholarly New York Democrat, used to say, "but not their own facts." Sorry, "Pat." But, my...
Fuzzy justice clearly stinks
President Bush owes Lil' Kim and Martha Stewart an apology. The famous rap artist Kimberly Denise "Lil' Kim" Jones spent 10 months in prison for lying to a grand jury....
A high court favor to the Democrats
It may have been purely coincidental that the Supreme Court banned the use of race to achieve racial diversity in public schools only hours before the year's first presidential debate...
Film guts U.S. health care system
America's got a terrific health care system, as long as you don't get sick. That much, at least, seems to be conceded even by lobbyists for the nation's health insurance...
Sweet ‘street’ justice for Paris
Forgive me. I thought I could avoid writing about the ironies of Paris Hilton. Alas, popular demand (translation: my persistent wife) thought otherwise. Immigration, the Group of Eight summit, global...