A mixed-up journey to treason
As a parent, I can sympathize with what John Walker's mom and dad are going through. I mean, just think: You work, you slave, you scrimp, you save, you do...
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More questions for Ashcroft
Poor John Ashcroft. The war on terrorism seems to have caused our attorney general to suffer a bit of battle fatigue. Or maybe he's just plain tired. How weary it...
New hope for some of the `Decatur Seven’
You might say that the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is putting his organization's money where his mouth is. On Saturday he and other leaders of his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition awarded college...
Selling our judicial system short
As I watch various politicians and commentators defend President Bush and Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft for their heavy-handed roundup of immigrants and their plans to try non-citizen terror suspects in...
The thought police want you
It is often said that the war against terrorism has brought us together, minimizing our social and political differences. Yeah. Right. Just try voicing reservations about the war in mixed...
Friendly warning from a lover of liberty
Priests, burglars and psychiatrists know the same truth about human nature: Sometimes it takes the eyes of an outsider to let us know how much we have and how easily...
Food banks show face of hunger has changed
When President Bush announced Tuesday a record-breaking $1 billion in grants to help the homeless, he did not address a mystery that his announcement raises: Why, at a time when...
Blackface students need better schooling
Our country's return to normalcy after the Sept. 11 attacks includes a resumption of what I call "Stupid College Students Racial Tricks." Particularly troublesome this year have been efforts by...
Will we ever learn to trust again?
Our reaction to Nov. 12 shows how much the world has changed since Sept. 11. Once again we witnessed a sunny and clear morning sky interrupted by big, thick, billowing...
The right to choose the quality of one’s death
"It is always consoling to think of suicide," the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, "in that way one gets through many a bad night." Restless nights have returned to...