Snitching on snitches has troubling root
Can snitching be ethical? The question has troubled me ever since I was a little-bitty boy. I ratted out my neighborhood friend Andrew. He had brazenly filched a couple of...
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Supreme Court should do justice in the workplace
WASHINGTON -- Did you ever have the feeling that you might be getting the shaft at your workplace? That other people might be making more money than you for doing...
Third party? Extremely possible
There's one thing I appreciate about what I call the "X-treme" candidates in the presidential debates. When they speak, sometimes a real debate almost breaks out. The X-treme candidates are...
Education on steep curve
It was the day before she would appear on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, a known liberal critic of the Bush administration. But as I interviewed her in her...
Memo to the candidates: ’24’ is just a TV show, don’t mimic
Treatment of the torture issue during the second Republican presidential debate illustrates what's great and what can go terribly wrong with these presidential face-offs. With the breathless urgency of a...
The rise and fall of Jerry Falwell
Speak not ill of the dead. That's easy advice to follow until you are remembering those who spoke a lot of ill while they were alive. Yes, I am talking...
Sick kids lost in gap
Residents of the nation's capital woke up one recent morning to the sort of bad news that we like to think doesn't happen in America: A child died from lack...
Held without charges
Has journalism become a crime in the Bush administration's "war on terror"? We Americans are left to wonder. Our military is holding two journalists without charges or any public evidence...
Satire about Obama isn’t the same as Imus’ flub
Remember when media pundits were asking whether Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was "black enough" to attract black voters? That was the old media narrative. The new one goes sort of...
Tough questions for media, sports
A couple of new studies about race and gender bias got me to thinking about an age-old question: Is it possible to think in a racist way without being consciously...