COMING TO TERMS WITH THE TWO THOMAS JEFFERSONS
Just when we Americans were convinced that one presidential sex scandal was more than enough, along comes new DNA evidence that, at long last, gets the goods on Thomas Jefferson....
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PRESS ATTACKS OR GOOD JOURNALISM?
Let our conscience be your guide. That's one of the more provocative messages conveyed by the news media to politicians in a new national poll of leading journalists in the...
FAIR’S FAIR
"How can you have any objection to this statement?" Ward Connerly, famous affirmative-action foe, asked me in a recent debate. Then he read to me the language of the anti-affirmative...
POLICE BRUTALITY
In his first prime-time special since joining NBC News earlier this year, Geraldo Rivera has chosen a made-for-TV subject if ever there was one: Race and the police. In "Geraldo...
TAKING OFF BLINDERS ABOUT SLAVERY
It was not enough for Oprah Winfrey to do a movie about slavery. She felt she needed to live it, too. At least a little. So, she took off into...
SOME LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE COMEBACK KID
Suddenly, as one aide put it, Clinton was having "a good eight days after a very bad eight months." With a budget deal that expands government, with Arab and Israeli...
THE LAW OFFERS BETTER WAYS TO FIGHT BIGOTRY
You don't have to be a bigot to oppose hate-crime laws, although unfortunately it seems to help. That reality complicates the national debate over hate crimes stirred up by the...
MODERN AMERICA’S MIXED EMOTIONS ABOUT `DIVERSITY’
We Americans value our diversity, but we don't like to be reminded of it too much. Such is the clear yet conflicting message Americans sent recently in a poll on...
THAT’S HOLLYWOOD
Were I a paranoid type, I might suspect some sort of publicity stunt behind the protests some African-Americans have staged over an alleged "comedy about slavery" on United Paramount Network....
THE THIRD WAY: HOW LIBERALS GOT THEIR GROOVE BACK
One of the biggest challenges posed by the "Third Way" politics that voters have swept into power in the United States, then Britain and now Germany is the inability of...