The cost of doing business
Leave it to the nation's most famous immigrant governor to trip himself up over the issue of immigration. In a recent policy speech to newspaper publishers gathered in San Francisco,...
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Reframed arguments rekindle Darwin debate
At a time when America's children need to learn how to compete with India, Ireland and other countries to which we are rapidly losing jobs, some Americans would rather fuss...
Shades of race identity boil down to a doll test
It was a simple test. You give a child two dolls, one white, one dark-colored, and ask the child which one he or she likes best. Which one do they...
A new century, a new `color line’
Sometimes our efforts to stand up for the less fortunate actually can grease their slide backward into even less fortune. That's what I thought of the verbal sucker punch with...
Can `The Hammer’ handle the heat?
Everywhere I turn in this town I hear the same question: "So, when do you think Tom DeLay is going down?" And I answer, alas, that I do not know....
Leave no blame behind
My wife is sitting on a gold mine, I tell her. She's a part-time creative writing teacher in a District of Columbia public high school. She comes home with stories...
Plan B prescription politics hard to swallow
I respect the feelings of pharmacists who, as a matter of conscience, refuse to sell the new "morning-after" emergency contraception pill. I also respectfully disagree with them. In fact, I...
Africa’s leaders are quickly learning the art of the spin
Before Gambian journalist Deyda Hydara was killed in a yet-unsolved drive-by shooting in December in this West African capital, many residents of Africa's tiniest country woke up eagerly to his...
A happy face on a gloomy second term
A politician should have three hats, the poet Carl Sandburg once said: "One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if...
The lessons we should learn from a medical tragedy
You're entitled to your own opinion, an old debater's saying goes, but not your own facts. Whoever made up that line never imagined the Terri Schiavo case. The death of...