A CONFUSING LESSON ABOUT SEX AND FORGIVENESS, REPUBLICAN-STYLE
Pardon me while I try to sort out the new, improved Republican stance on "family values." The family-values theme, you may recall, emerged with a vengeance in Ronald Reagan's 1980...
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HUSTLER MAGAZINE’S LARRY FLYNT SETS THE AGENDA FOR CONGRESS
In ridiculing Paula Jones, Democratic operative James Carville famously remarked that you never know what you're going to find when you drag a few dollars through a trailer park. Hustler...
PLAYING WITH POLITICS
A reporter who keeps track of such things called me to ask why I have not also called for President Clinton to be impeached. After all, I called on him...
`NAPPY HAIR’ AND WORSE PROBLEMS
Somebody should have warned Ruth Sherman. She thought she was doing the right thing by offering a cute little book to her 3rd-grade class of black and Latino students in...
DEFINING MERIT AT THE SUPREME COURT
After years of turning to the Supreme Court for justice, several prominent women's and civil rights groups are turning on the high court. In an unusual move, Chief Justice William...
PARTY MAKEOVER
When I talked to Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.) a few days before he was elected to be the first African-American in the Republican leadership of Congress, he said he did...
REMEMBERING STOKELY AND HIS ANGER
It says something crucial about the legacy of the 1960s that today's youths celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., while comparatively few remember Stokely Carmichael, King's philosophical rival...
WHY CLINTON THUMBED HIS NOSE AT RESIGNATION
An interview with myself: Q: Well, what do you have to say for yourself? A: About what? Q: Aren't you one of those smart-guy Washington pundits who called on Bill...
WHEN YOUNG VOTERS FLEX THEIR MUSCLE
On the day after the recent elections I put a riddle to Michele Mitchell, author of a fascinating new book on the political views of Generation X. . "What," I...
IN PRAISE OF PUSHY PARENTS
I have just finished talking with my 9-year-old son about a topic more controversial than sex. It is the question of intelligence. During one of our nightly discussions about his...