No contest: Iraq-gate trumps Monica-gate
Former President Bill Clinton is back in the national spotlight to promote his autobiography, just in time to remind us of how trivial his sexual shenanigans with Monica Lewinsky were...
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When a diversity plan works too well
In our long, hard slog through America's racial confusions, there are lessons to be found deep in the heart of Texas' dilemma over diversity on campus. A "10 percent solution"...
Our great racial divide
It is painfully ironic to me that the death of President Ronald Reagan came so near to the 10th anniversary of the O.J. Simpson murder case. Both tragedies polarized Americans...
Finding a cure for Alzheimer’s, ALS, . . .
"Welfare queens." The gender gap. Ketchup as a vegetable. Reaganomics. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development scandal. Right-wing judicial appointments. Iran-contra scandal. Drug tests. Tax breaks for a...
War talk: `Let’s you and them fight’
My one and only son is worried again. "Hey, Dad," he asked me the other day. "Is there going to be a draft?" What can I say? The boy just...
Kerry is not the only one doing flip-flops
President Bush's presidential campaign team has been having jolly good fun lampooning their presumptive Democratic opponent John Kerry as a flip-flopper. A closer look reveals that the president flip-flops too,...
What Bill Cosby meant to say
Had Bill Cosby chosen milder, more genteel language for his recent controversial critique of bad habits that keep poor black folks poor, we wouldn't still be talking about it. Instead,...
Farewell to an old friend
Sometimes a journalist's greatest achievements are not in his or her journalism. Take, for example, my friend Vernon Jarrett, the Chicago-based giant who died Sunday. He was lying in his...
Cosby sounds off over `dirty laundry’
We usually think of Bill Cosby as the jolly, Jell-O-pitching, Cliff Huxtable father figure who never gets agitated about much. But, even the jolly Jell-O Man feels the need sometimes...
Rethinking Brown? Think again
Frustration has been a remarkably persistent theme in recent observances of the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision. It is frustrating for those...