Waiting to hear the endgame of Team Bush
You know the Bush administration is desperate when it starts playing the Michael Moore card. The Double-M words came up in response to a call by Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.),...
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A truly Native American voice
At a time when Americans could use a few laughs to help a lot of bad medicine go down, we have lost one of our wisest wits. Vine Deloria Jr.,...
Keeping ID out of science classes
Call me paranoid, but sometimes I think the mainstream media give maximum coverage to Pat Robertson in order to discredit him. Or, at least, to discredit politically active TV evangelists...
No riots here yet, but …
As a youth I daydreamed about fleeing to Paris, as James Baldwin and Josephine Baker had done, to escape the harsh discrimination that limited black opportunities here in America. That's...
`Racial’ is not always `racist’
In the touchy arena of sports and race, there's a special etiquette that forbids a lot of people from saying what they think. Recent instructive examples include Fisher DeBerry, the...
Inside the president’s mind
The reaction of conservatives to President Bush's nomination of federal appeals court Judge Samuel Alito Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court has been so gleeful that friends and foes alike...
A new morality on the right
How awkward. A senior White House aide has been indicted and suddenly in Republican circles the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is not the big deal...
What can we do in her memory?
Ask not what Rosa Parks did for us; ask what we can do in her memory. Every schoolchild should know about the mother of the modern civil rights movement who...
A reporter’s conflict: Hero or a stooge?
Conservative critics usually can't stop jabbering about the "liberal media." Yet the pantheon of punditry on the right has been oddly mute about the amazing service that The New York...
A snapshot on sexism
When First Lady Laura Bush was asked on NBC's "Today" if she detected sexism in the rising criticism regarding the Harriet Miers nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, her answer...